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A river in Ireland and Northern Ireland, starting in County Cavan, entering County Fermanagh, and passing through Upper and Lower Lough Erne on its way to the sea in County Donegal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A surname from German.
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noun
A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
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noun
An eagle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, poetic
Topics: sciences
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verb
To long; to yearn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: ern, grey sea eagle, gray sea eagle, European sea eagle, white-tailed sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla
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Broader terms: sea eagle
History
From Irish abhainn na hÉirne, An Éirne, from a goddess or population called Érainn, which could be related to Old Irish Ériu (“matron goddess of Ireland”), in which case a doublet of Ireland.
* As an Alemannic German surname, from a short form of Arnold. * As an English surname, from archaic erne (“eagle”).
From Middle English ern, erne, earn, from Old English earn (“eagle”), from Proto-West Germanic *arnu (“eagle”), from Proto-Germanic *arnuz (“eagle”), from Proto-Germanic *arô (“eagle”) (whence also Arnold), from Proto-Indo-European *h3érō (“large bird, eagle”). Cognate with North Frisian Aarn, iarn, jarn (“eagle”), West Frisian earn (“eagle”), Dutch arend (“eagle”), German Aar (“eagle”), Low German Arend (“eagle”), Danish, Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk ørn (“eagle”), Icelandic and Swedish örn (“eagle”), Ancient Greek ὄρνεον (órneon), ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”) (whence ornitho-), translingual -ornis, Proto-Slavic *orьlъ (“eagle”).
Across languages
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