perne
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Nonce-derivation from pern, coined by Yeats in his Sailing to Byzantium (1928).
Verb [edit]
perne (third-person singular simple present , present participle perning, simple past and past participle )
- to spin or girate, as the pern of a spinning-wheel
- 1928 "Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre" (Sailing to Byzantium)
- 1970, Alexander Norman Jeffares, The circus animals: essays on W. B. Yeats, p. 113
- Yeats creates the verb 'perne' from the noun 'pern,' a weaver's bobbin or spool. Here the speaker asks the sages to 'perne' or descend in a spiral pattern, into the gyres of history."
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin perna (“mussel”)
Noun [edit]
perne f (plural pernes)
Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
pernē
- second-person singular present active imperative of perneō
Tocharian B [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *bher- (“shining”); more at bear.
Adjective [edit]
perne (A parno)
