æcern

• æceran, æceren, æcirn

From Proto-Germanic *akraną, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógeh₂ (“berry”). Cognate with Old Frisian akern, Old Saxon akeran, Old High German ackeran, Old Norse akarn, Gothic 𐌰𐌺𐍂𐌰𐌽 (akran).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæː.kern/, [ˈæː.kerˠn]

ǣcern n

1. acorn
2. tree mast (fruit of forest trees)

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: acorn
  • English: acorn
  • Middle Scots: accorne, akcorne
    • Scots: aicorn

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ǽcern”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “æceren”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.