starn
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English sterne, starn, From Old Norse stjarna, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”).
Noun
starn (plural starns)
- (Scotland, Northern England) A star.
References
Etymology 2
Noun
starn (plural starns)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
Middle English
Noun
starn (plural starnes)
- (chiefly Northern dialect) Alternative form of sterne
References
- “sterne (n.1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 August 2018.
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English steorrne, sterrne, sterne, starne, from Old Norse stjarna, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”).
Noun
starn (plural starns)
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