# dorn
## English

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### Etymology

Compare German Dorn (“thorn”).

### Noun

dorn (plural dorns)
* The thornback ray (Raja clavata).
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “dorn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

### Anagrams

* Nord, rond

## Breton

Picture dictionary :
dorn
palv
arzorn
biz-meud
biz-yod
(biz-ar-vagerez)
biz-bras
biz-ar-bizoù
(biz-ar-galon, biz-gwalenn)
biz-bihan :

### Etymology

From Old Breton durn, from Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Welsh dwrn (“fist”), Irish dorn), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɔrn/

### Noun

dorn m (plural dornioù, dual daouarn)
* hand

## Cornish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Welsh dwrn (“fist”), Irish dorn), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

### Noun

dorn m (dual dewdhorn or diwla, plural dornow)
* hand
* fist
* handle

### References

* Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* dorna

### Etymology

From Old Irish dorn, from Proto-Celtic *durnos (compare Welsh dwrn), probably borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate language.

### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /ˈd̪ˠʌɾˠən̪ˠ/
* (Connacht) IPA: /d̪ˠoːɾˠn̪ˠ/
* (Aran) IPA: /ˈd̪ˠɔɾˠən/; /ˈd̪ˠauɾˠnə/ (corresponding to the form dorna)
* (Ulster) IPA: /d̪ˠɔːɾˠn̪ˠ/

### Noun

dorn m (genitive singular doirn, nominative plural doirne)
* fist

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
dorn
doirne
vocative
a dhorn
a dhoirne
genitive
doirn
dorn
dative
dorn
doirne
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an dorn
na doirne
genitive
an doirn
na ndorn
dative
leis an dorn don dorn
leis na doirne :
Alternative plural forms:
* doirn, dorna, dornaí

#### Derived terms

* doirnín (“handle”)
* dornáil (“to box, fist; boxing, fisting”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 25, page 15
* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 68
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 239, page 87

## Iu Mien
### Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *tu̯ɛn (“son, boy”). Cognate with White Hmong tub.

### Noun

dorn
* boy

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch thorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þorn.

### Noun

dorn m
* thorn
* thornbush

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Alternative forms

* dōorn, dōren

#### Descendants

* Dutch: doren, doorn
** Afrikaans: doring
** Negerhollands: dorn, doorn

### Further reading

* “dorn”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “dorn”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

## Old Irish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *durnos, further etymology unknown; possibly from a non-Indo-European substrate language. Cognate with Welsh dwrn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdor͈n/

### Noun

dorn m (genitive duirn)
* hand, fist
* handle

#### Inflection

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

#### Descendants

* Middle Irish: dorn
** Irish: dorn
** Scottish Gaelic: dòrn
** Manx: doarn

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*durno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 109

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dorn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Upper Sorbian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dь̀rnъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɔʀn/
* Rhymes: -ɔʀn
* Hyphenation: dorn
* Syllabification: dorn

### Noun

dorn m inan
* piece of turf

#### Declension
### References

* “dorn” in Soblex