mourn

• morne (14th - 15th centuries)

From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).

• (General American) enPR: môrn, IPA^(key): /mɔɹn/; (rare) enPR: mo͝orn, IPA^(key): /mʊɹn/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: môn, IPA^(key): /mɔːn/; (rare) enPR: mo͝orn, IPA^(key): /mʊən/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: mōrn, IPA^(key): /mo(ː)ɹn/; (rare) enPR: mo͝orn, IPA^(key): /mʊɹn/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /moən/; (rare) enPR: mo͝orn, IPA^(key): /mʊən/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
• Homophones: morne, mourne; morn (accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

mourn (third-person singular simple present mourns, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
   • Bible, Genesis xxiii. 2

     Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

   • Shakespeare

     We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?

2. (transitive) To utter in a sorrowful manner.
3. (intransitive) To wear mourning.

• bemourn
• mourner
• mournful
• mourning

mourn (countable and uncountable, plural mourns)

1. (now literary) Sorrow, grief.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter vij, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:

     Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle

2. A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

• grieve
• lament
• sorrow

• Munro, munro