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Webster 1913 Edition

Sorn

Sorn

,
Verb.
I.
[See
Sorehon
.]
To obtrude one’s self on another for bed and board.
[Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sorn

SOREHON

, SORN,
Noun.
A kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously, whenever he wished to indulge himself in a debauch. So that when a person obtrudes himself on another for bed and board, he is said to sorn, or be a sorner.

Definition 2024

sorn

sorn

See also: SORN and sòrn

English

Verb

sorn ‎(third-person singular simple present sorns, present participle sorning, simple past and past participle sorned)

  1. (transitive, dated) to impose upon another for food and lodging.
    The traveler sorned his less than willing hosts.

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sorn, from Latin furnus.

Noun

sorn m ‎(genitive singular soirn, nominative plural soirn)

  1. furnace
  2. stove, range

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Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sorn shorn
after an, tsorn 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • "sorn" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “sorn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish sorn, from Latin furnus.

Noun

sorn m ‎(genitive singular sorn)

  1. range, fireplace under boiler

Derived terms

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sorn horn
after "yn", torn 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • “sorn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin furnus.

Noun

sorn m

  1. furnace, oven, kiln

Inflection

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Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
sorn ṡorn unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • “sorn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Etymology

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