sarn

See also: Sarn

English

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), which could be from Proto-Celtic *star-no-, related to *starnati (“to strew”).[1]

Noun

sarn (plural sarns)

  1. (archaic, Wales) A pavement or stepping stone.
  2. (archaic, Wales) A causeway.
    • 1906, H.C. Tierney, “What Does "Pensarn" Mean”, in Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club, volumes 1-6, page 23:
      "Not now," he went on, "but there was a high sarn formerly, and only for that both vehicles and foot passengers would ovten have found it impossible to get into Carmarthen from that direction. The tides and floods there were terrible in those times."
    • 1913, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, page 105:
      The ground in the immediate neighbourhood is somewhat boggy and treacherous, and a 'sarn' has doubtless always been necessary for traversing the bog.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*star-na-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 354

Anagrams

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sarn/
  • Rhymes: -arn
  • Syllabification: sarn

Noun

sarn f

  1. genitive plural of sarna
    Synonym: saren

Further reading
  • sarn in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sarna, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *śarna. Cognates include Finnish saarna.

Noun

sarn

  1. tale, story

Declension

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