cearn

• IPA^(key): /caːɾˠn̪ˠ/

From Middle Irish cern (“angle, corner”), from Old Irish cern, from Proto-Celtic *kernā (“angle, corner”).

• ceard, cearna
• ceárd, ceárn, ceárna (superseded)

cearn f (genitive singular cearna, nominative plural cearnaí)

1. angle, corner

• as gach cearn (“from all quarters, from all directions”)
• i ngach cearn (“in every quarter, all over”)

• (angle, corner): cúinne

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “cearn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 179; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cearn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Middle Irish cern (“dish, receptacle”), from Old Irish cern (“dish”), possibly from Proto-Celtic *kernā (“angle, corner”).

• ceárn (superseded)

cearn f (genitive singular cearna, nominative plural cearna)

1. (obsolete) dish
2. a drum-shaped vessel used for keeping carded wool to feed the spinning wheel

• ceirnín

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “cearn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 180; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cearn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Middle Irish cern, from Old Irish cern (“victory, triumph”).

• ceárn (superseded)

cearn f (genitive singular cearna, nominative plural cearna)

1. (literary) victory, triumph

• (victory, triumph): bua

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “cearn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 180; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cearn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN