perne
English
Etymology
Nonce-derivation from pern by William Butler Yeats; see the 1928 quotation.
Verb
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- To spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).
- 1928, William Butler Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium", in The Tower:
- […] / Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, / […]
- 1928, William Butler Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium", in The Tower:
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Noun
perne f (plural pernes)
Further reading
- “perne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) pernē
Tocharian B
Etymology
From an Iranian language. Compare Tocharian A paräṃ.
Noun
perne
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- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin verb forms
- Tocharian B terms borrowed from Iranian languages
- Tocharian B terms derived from Iranian languages
- Tocharian B lemmas
- Tocharian B nouns