sòrn
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish sorn (“furnace, oven, kiln”), from Latin furnus.
Noun
[edit]sòrn m (genitive singular sùirn, plural sùirn)
- snout
- flue of a kiln or oven
- concavity
- (Uist) kiln for drying corn
- disagreeable visage
- hearth
- fireplace of an oven or kiln
References
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “sòrn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sorn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language