Definitions
bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland
Word origin
From Middle English ern, erne, earn, from Old English earn (“eagle”), from Proto-West Germanic *arnu (“eagle”), from Proto-Germanic *arnuz (“eagle”), from Proto-Germanic *arô (“eagle”) (whence also Arnold), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“large bird, eagle”).
Used in a sentence
“Ahoi! come kite! Ahoi! come erne from off the fen!”
“[T]his is an in-depth study of the Erne (to use the old Anglo-Saxon name for this eagle).”
“the bald erne”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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