æcern

Old English

Alternative forms

• æceran, æceren, æcirn

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *akraną, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógeh₂ (“berry”). Cognate with Old Frisian akern, Old Saxon akeran, Old High German ackeran, Old Norse akarn, Gothic 𐌰𐌺𐍂𐌰𐌽 (akran).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.kern/, [ˈæ.kerˠn]

Noun

æcern n

1. acorn
2. tree mast (fruit of forest trees)

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	æcern	æcernu
accusative	æcern	æcernu
genitive	æcernes	æcerna
dative	æcerne	æcernum

Descendants

• Middle English: acorn
  • English: acorn
  • Scots: aicorn

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ǽcern”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “æceren”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.