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Etymology [edit]
Middle English acorne, an alteration (after corn) of earlier akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-Germanic *akraną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógeh₂- (“berry”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Äkkene, Flemish aker, Danish agern; and with Irish áirne (“sloe”), Lithuanian úoga, Russian ягода (jágoda, “berry”).
Pronunciation [edit]
acorn (plural acorns)
- The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
- (nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
- (zoology) See acorn-shell.
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fruit of the oak tree
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- Italian: ghianda (it) f
- Japanese: どんぐり (ja) (donguri), 団栗 (ja) (どんぐり, donguri)
- Jèrriais: tchênelle f
- Korean: 에이콘 (ko) (eikon), 도토리 (ko) (dotori)
- Latgalian: zeile f
- Latin: glans (la) f
- Latvian: zīle f (lv)
- Lithuanian: gilė (lt) f
- Macedonian: желад (mk) (žélad) m, жир (mk) (žir) m
- Navajo: chéchʼil binááʼ
- Norwegian: kongle (no) m and f, åkorn (no) n, eikenøtt (no) m and f
- Occitan: agland (oc)
- Old English: æcern (ang)
- Persian: بلوط (fa) (balut)
- Polish: żołądź (pl) m
- Portuguese: bolota (pt) f
- Romanian: ghindă (ro) f
- Romansch: glogn (rm), glonda (rm), glànd (rm), glanda (rm)
- Russian: жёлудь (ru) (žóludʹ) m
- Sardinian: landha (sc), landhe (sc), landi (sc)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: жи̑р (sh) m, желуд (sh) m
- Roman: žȋr (sh) m, želud (sh) m
- Slovak: žaluď (sk) m
- Slovene: želod (sl) m
- Spanish: bellota (es) f
- Swedish: ekollon (sv) n
- Thai: ผลต้นโอ๊ก (th) (pŏn dtôn óhk)
- Turkish: palamut (tr)
- Ukrainian: жолудь (uk) (žóludʹ) m
- Vietnamese: quả đầu (vi)
- Volapük: kvär (vo), (older word, obsolete) gölogafluk (vo)
- Walloon: gland (wa) f
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