Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise. · To reject, turn down with disdain. · To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself. · To scoff, to express contempt.
Contempt or disdain. · A display of disdain; a slight. · An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
Verb from Middle English scornen, schornen, alteration of Old French escharnir, from Vulgar Latin *escarnire, from Proto-West Germanic *skarnijan, possibly from Proto-Germanic *skeraną (“to shear”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”)), or possibly related to *skarną (“dung, filth”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱerd-, *(s)ḱer- (“dung, manure, filth”)). Noun from Old French escarn (cognate with Portuguese escárnio, Spanish escarnio and Italian scherno). Cognate with Middle High German schern (“joke, mockery, scorn”), Old English sċierniċġe (“female entertainer, juggler, actress”).
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- Derivation mentionscornenenm
- Derivation mentionescharnirfro
- Derivation mention*skarnijangmw-pro
- Derivation mention*skeranągem-pro · to shear
- Derivation mention*(s)ker-ine-pro · to cut
- Derivation mention*(s)ḱerd-ine-pro
- Derivation mentionescarnfro
- Cognate mentionescárniopt
- Cognate mentionescarnioes
- Cognate mentionschernoit
- Cognate mentionscherngmh · joke, mockery, scorn
- Cognate mentionsċeriċġeang · female entertainer, juggler, actress
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