Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe dung or manure of cattle or sheep.
From Middle English schern, from Old English sċearn (“sharn, dung, muck, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *skarn, from Proto-Germanic *skarną (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *sker- (“dung, manure”). Cognate with North Frisian skern (“dung, manure”), Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic skarn (“dung”), German Harn (“urine”). Doublet of skarn.
Relationships mentioned by the source
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- Inherited-form mentionschernenm
- Inherited-form mentionsċearnang · sharn, dung, muck, filth
- Inherited-form mention*skarngmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*skarnągem-pro · manure
- Derivation mention*sker-ine-pro · dung, manure
- Cognate mentionskernfrr · dung, manure
- Cognate mentionskarnis · dung
- Cognate mentionHarnde
- Doublet mentionskarnen
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