sorn

See also: SORN and sòrn

English

Etymology

Perhaps from sojourn. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Verb

sorn (third-person singular simple present sorns, present participle sorning, simple past and past participle sorned)

  1. (Scotland, intransitive, dated) to impose upon another for food and lodging.

Derived terms

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sorn, from Latin furnus.

Noun

sorn m (genitive singular soirn, nominative plural soirn)

  1. furnace
  2. stove, range

Declension
Declension of sorn

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sorn soirn
Vocative a shoirn a shorna
Genitive soirn sorn
Dative sorn soirn

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an sorn na soirn
Genitive an tsoirn na sorn
Dative leis an sorn

don sorn

 leis na soirn

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • píopa soirn m (“stove-pipe”)
  • snasán soirn m (“stove-polish”)
  • sornaire m (“furnace tender”)
  • sorn campála m (“camping stove”)
  • sornchoire m (“range boiler”)
  • sornchruanta (“stove-enamelled”, adjective)
  • sorn cistine (“cooker, cooking-range, kitchener, kitchen-range”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sorn shorn
after an, tsorn		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "sorn" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “sorn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish sorn, from Latin furnus.

Noun

sorn m (genitive singular sorn)

  1. range, fireplace under boiler

Derived terms
  • sorn aarlee (“kitchen range”)
  • sorn-coirrey (“range boiler”)
  • sorn gas (“gas cooker”)
  • sorn kishtin (“cooking range, cooker”)
  • sorn lectragh (“electric cooker”)
  • sorn ooill (“oil stove”)

Mutation
Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
sornhorn
after "yn", torn		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • “sorn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin furnus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sor͈n͈/

Noun

sorn m (genitive suirn, nominative plural suirn)

  1. furnace, oven, kiln

Inflection
Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative sorn sornL suirnL
Vocative suirn sornL surnuH
Accusative sornN sornL surnuH
Genitive suirnL sorn sornN
Dative surnL sornaib sornaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Irish: sorn
  • Manx: sorn
  • Scottish Gaelic: sòrn
  • → Faroese: sornur

Further reading
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
sorn ṡorn unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • “sorn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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