sorn

See also: SORN and sòrn

English

Etymology

Perhaps from sojourn. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Verb

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

1. (Scotland, intransitive, dated) to impose upon another for food and lodging.

Derived terms

• sorner

Anagrams

• NORs, RONs, nors, orns

Catalan

Etymology

Of Pre-Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsorn]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsoɾn]

Adjective

sorn (feminine sorna, masculine plural sorns, feminine plural sornes)

1. dawdling, dilatory

Derived terms

• sornejar
• sorneria

Related terms

• sorna

Further reading

• “sorn” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sorn, from Latin furnus.

Noun

sorn m (genitive singular soirn, nominative plural soirn)

1. furnace
2. stove, range

   Synonym: sornóg

Declension

Declension of sorn (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative sorn soirn vocative a shoirn a shorna genitive soirn sorn dative sorn soirn forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an sorn na soirn genitive an tsoirn na sorn dative leis an sorn don sorn leis na soirn

Derived terms

• píopa soirn m (“stove-pipe”)
• snasán soirn m (“stove-polish”)
• sorn campála m (“camping stove”)
• sorn cistine (“cooker, cooking-range, kitchener, kitchen-range”)
• sornaire m (“furnace tender”)
• sornchoire m (“range boiler”)
• sornchruanta (“stove-enamelled”, adjective)

 

See also

• oigheann m (“oven”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of sorn

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sorn	shorn after an, tsorn	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sorn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sorn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish sorn, from Latin furnus.

Noun

sorn m (genitive singular sorn)

1. range, fireplace under boiler

Derived terms

• sorn aarlee (“kitchen range”)
• sorn gas (“gas cooker”)
• sorn kishtin (“cooking range, cooker”)
• sorn lectragh (“electric cooker”)
• sorn ooill (“oil stove”)
• sorn-coirrey (“range boiler”)

 

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.

Further reading

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

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• sornn

Etymology

From Late Primitive Irish *sworn (around AD 500), from Middle Primitive Irish *swornah (around AD 475), from Early Primitive Irish *swurnus (around AD 450), borrowed from Latin furnus. The irregular replacement of Latin f- with Primitive Irish sw- was likely on analogy with Primitive Irish words (such as the ancestor of siur and seir) that regularly alternated between unlenited *sw- (yielding Old Irish s-) and lenited *hw- (yielding Old Irish f-). Confer Old Irish sroigell from Latin flagellum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sor͈n͈/

Noun

sorn m (genitive suirn, nominative plural suirn)

1. furnace, oven, kiln

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	sorn	sornL	suirnL
Vocative	suirn	sornL	surnuH
Accusative	sornN	sornL	surnuH
Genitive	suirnL	sorn	sornN
Dative	surnL	sornaib	sornaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: sorn
• Manx: sorn
• Scottish Gaelic: sòrn
• → Faroese: sornur
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: sonn

Mutation

Mutation of sorn

radical	lenition	nasalization
sorn	ṡorn	unchanged

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

Further reading

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