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-ern

suffix

Etymology

In form, from Middle English -erne, -ern, -ren, -ron (northern(e), northron, so(u)thern(e), sothron, etc), from Old English -erne (norþerne, etc), from Proto-Germanic *-r- (probably from rebracketing of *nurþrōnijaz etc) + *-ōnijaz, whence also Old High German -rōni, Old Saxon -rōni, Old Norse -rǿnn / Old Norse -ǿnn. In practice, possibly a back-formation from northern, southern, etc. (Contrast the -ern in hāliġern, etc., which is related to ærn (“place”).)

  1. inherited from -erne
  2. inherited from -erne

Definitions

  1. Added to the names of directions to form adjectives.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -ern. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA