derne

English

Etymology

From Old English dyrnan (“to hide”). See dern, dearn (adjective).

Verb

derne (third-person singular simple present dernes, present participle derning, simple past and past participle derned)

1. (Scotland) To hide; to skulk.
   • 1854, Hugh Miller, My schools and schoolmasters:

     He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “derne”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Ender, Rende, dreen, ender, erned

Middle English

Alternative forms

• darne, durne

Etymology

From Old English dyrne, dierne.

Adjective

derne

1. Hidden; secret.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     For derne love of thee, lemman, I spill.

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Descendants

• English: dern, dearn, darn
• Scots: dern, darn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (determiner): derre

Etymology

From Old Norse þarna.

Adverb

derne

1. there

   Synonym: der

Determiner

derne

1. that

   Synonym: den

See also

• herne

References

• “derne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• neder-, nedre