acquerne
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English ācweorna, āc-wern, āqueorna (“squirrel”),[1] from Proto-Germanic *aikwernô (“squirrel”). The word is cognate with Danish egern, Middle Dutch êncoren (modern Dutch eekhoorn, eikhoren, inkhoren), Norwegian ekorn, Old High German eichhorn, eihhorno (modern German Eichhorn), Low German êker-ken, Old Norse íkorni, Old Saxon ēkhorn.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
acquerne (plural acquernes)
- A squirrel.
- The fur of a squirrel.
- c. 1175?, “II. A Moral Ode. [Jesus College (Oxford) MS I. Arch. I. 29.]”, in Richard Morris, editor, An Old English Miscellany Containing a Bestiary, Kentish Sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, Religious Poems of the Thirteenth Century, […] (Original Series; 49), London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1872, →OCLC, folio 247, recto, page 70, lines 357–358:
- Þer nys nouþer fou ne grey. ne konyng, ne hermyne. / Ne oter. ne acquerne. Beuveyr ne sablyne. "There is neither coloured or grey, nor rabbit, nor stoat, nor otter, nor squirrel, nor beaver nor Sable.
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References
- ^ “ōc-querne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 September 2018.
- ^ “aquerne, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1885.
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