iren

iren

1. third-person plural personal infinitive of ir

iren (third-person singular present iert, past participle gëiert, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. superseded spelling of ieren

• irin, iron, irn, irne, yren, yrn, yrne
• eren, heren, heyron, hyrone, ieren, yeren, yrin (Late Middle English)
• iryn, iryne (Northern); yirn, yrun, yryn (especially East Anglia); hire, ire, yre (Southern, South Midland)
• yse, ysen (Middlesex); yzen (Kent)

From Old English īren, variant of īsern, from Proto-West Germanic *īsarn, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną, from Proto-Celtic *īsarnom.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːrən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈiːr(ə)/ (Southern, South Midland)
• IPA^(key): /ˈiːrn/ (especially East Midland or Northern)
• IPA^(key): /ˈiːzən/, /ˈiːz(ə)/ (Kent, Middlesex)

iren (plural irnes)

1. Iron; the metal Fe or its ore.
2. An iron implement or tool:
   1. A heated iron poker (for branding, cauterising, or trial by ordeal)
   2. A fetter or shackle.
   3. One or more iron bars, fastenings or nails.
   4. An iron part of a larger tool.
3. An iron or steel weapon.
4. A piece of iron armour.

iren

1. Made or consisting of iron.

• English: iron

  Ottawa Valley: iern, eirn

  • → Marshallese: aen
• Middle Scots: irne, yrne
  • Scots: airn, ern, irne
• Yola: eeren

• “īren, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “īren, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• Burnley, David (1983), “5. Linguistic Diversity”, in A guide to Chaucer's language‎^[1], Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 115.

iren m

1. definite singular of ire

iren m

1. definite singular of ire

Syncopic form of isern. Syncope of -s- in words for iron is an areal feature shared with insular Celtic languages.

īren m

1. alternative form of īsern

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *irim.

• (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /iren/, /erɨn/

iren

1. cheese

• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1992), “iren”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 186
• Ma, Chengjun; Han, Lianye; Ma, Weisheng (December 2010), “iiren”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 139