starn

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English sterne, starn, From Old Norse stjarna, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ (star), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (star). Doublet of star.

Noun[edit]

starn (plural starns)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) A star.
References[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old English stearn

Noun[edit]

starn (plural starns)

  1. (UK, dialect) The European starling.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “starn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

starn

  1. (chiefly Northern) Alternative form of sterne

Scots[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English steorrne, sterrne, sterne, starne, from Old Norse stjarna, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ (star), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (star).

Noun[edit]

starn (plural starns)

  1. star