acorn

Senso (Inglese)

1. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
2. A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
3. See acorn-shell.
4. (informal) The glans penis.
5. (plural-normally, slang) A testicle.

Concetti

ghianda

sinonimi

berry

cowl

dome

fairing

fir cone

nut

pants

pine cone

fruit

false ogive

Traduzioni

gland

bellota

Eichel

bolota

gla

eikel

βελανίδι

glans

βαλανίδι

palamut

بلوط

balanus

agland

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈeɪ.kɔɹn/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: acorn

Ereditato da inglese antico: æcern

Affine scozzese: aicorn

Affine saterfriesisch: Äkkene

Affine Tokharian B: oko

Affine gallese: eirin

Affine bretone: irin

Affine irlandese: airne

Affine lituano: úoga

Affine russo: я́года

In summary

From Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier *akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *akarn, from Proto-Germanic *akraną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égrō (“berry”). Cognate with Scots aicorn, Saterland Frisian Äkkene, Dutch aker (“acorn”), German Ecker (“acorn”), Danish agern (“acorn”), Faroese, Icelandic akarn (“acorn”), Norwegian Nynorsk åkorn (“acorn”), Tocharian B oko (“fruit”), Welsh eirin (“plums”), Breton irin (“plum”), Irish airne (“sloe”), Lithuanian úoga, Russian я́года (jágoda, “berry”), etc. Not related to Old English āc (“oak”), corn (“corn, seed”) or Middle English acquerne.