tjǫrn

See also: tjörn

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ternō (“water hole”), perhaps related to *turnaz (“anger, fury”).

Noun

tjǫrn f (genitive tjarnar, plural tjarnir)

1. small lake, pond, tarn
2. pool

Declension

Declension of tjǫrn (strong i-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tjǫrn	tjǫrnin	tjarnir	tjarnirnar
accusative	tjǫrn	tjǫrnina	tjarnir	tjarnirnar
dative	tjǫrn	tjǫrninni	tjǫrnum	tjǫrnunum
genitive	tjarnar	tjarnarinnar	tjarna	tjarnanna

Derived terms

• seftjǫrn

Descendants

• Icelandic: tjörn
• Faroese: tjørn
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tjørn, tjønn, tjønn f, tjern, kjenn n
  • → Scots: shon
• Jamtish: tjern
• Old Swedish: tiärn
  • Swedish: tjärn
• Danish: tjern
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tjern
• → Middle English: terne
  • English: tarn, tairn
  • Scots: tarn

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “tjörn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 439; also available at the Internet Archive