tern

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sterninae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.

Adj

Consisting of three components; ternate, threefold, triple.

Conceptos

charrán

fumarel

gaviotín

gaviota

golondrina de mar

terna

Sinónimos

seagull

triplex

sea swallow

threefold

triple

trebling

trine

triplicate

triplicity

black noddy

bridled

three time as much

gull

sea gull

ternary

treble

Traducciones

sterne

Seeschwalbe

sterna

stern

terna

Sterna

andorinha

sterna

balıkçın

terno

guifette

Meerschwalbe

larus

mouette

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/tɜːn/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con danés: terne

Cognado con noruego: terne

Cognado con sueco: tärna

Heredado de inglés medio: terne

Cognado con francés: terne

In summary

Via an East Anglian dialect, from some Scandinavian (North Germanic) language, related to Danish terne, Norwegian terne, and Swedish tärna, all from Old Norse þerna (“tern; maidservant”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *þewernā (“handmaid, young girl”). First attested in the 1670s.