warn

Phrases
Signification (Anglais)

  1. (transitive) To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:
  2. (transitive) To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:
  3. (transitive) To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:
  4. (ambitransitive, obsolete, possibly, transitive) To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:
  5. (transitive) To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour.
  6. To advise or order to go or stay away.
  7. (intransitive) To give warning.

Fréquence

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Prononcé comme (IPA)
/wɔːn/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

From Middle English warnen, warnien (“to warn; admonish”), from Old English warnian (“to take heed; warn”), from Proto-Germanic *warnōną (“to warn; take heed”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to be aware; give heed”). Cognate with Dutch waarnen (obsolete), German Low German warnen, German warnen, Swedish varna, Icelandic varna.

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