acorn

acorn

English

Acorns.

Alternative forms

• achorn (Chester)

Etymology

From Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier *akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-Germanic *akraną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógeh₂ (“berry”). Cognate with Scots aicorn, Saterland Frisian Äkkene, Tocharian B oko (“fruit”), Welsh eirin (“plums”), Breton irin (“plum”), Irish airne (“sloe”), Lithuanian úoga, Russian я́года (jágoda, “berry”), etc.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.kɔɹn/, /ˈeɪkɚn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.kɔːn/

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• Rhymes: -eɪkɔː(ɹ)n, -eɪkə(ɹ)n

Noun

acorn (plural acorns)

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

Holonyms

• (fruit of an oak): oak

Derived terms

• acorn barnacle
• acorn cup
• acorn game
• acorn nut
• acorn squash
• acorn sugar
• acorn woodpecker
• acorn worm
• eggcorn
• even a blind pig can find an acorn, even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and then, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while
• ride a horse foaled by an acorn
• sea acorn

 

Translations

fruit of the oak tree

Abenaki: anaskemen (red or black oak acorn; literally "oak berry"), anaskebagôn (red or black oak acorn; literally "oak nut"), wachil (white oak acorn) Adyghe: мышкӏу (məškʷʼu) Afrikaans: akker (af) Albanian: lende (sq) f, gogël (sq) f Apache: Western Apache: chíchʼil, chíchnʼil Arabic: بَلُّوط‎ m (ballūṭ) (collective), بَلُّوطَة‎ f (ballūṭa) (singulative) Moroccan Arabic: بلوط‎ m (ballūṭ) (collective), بلوطة‎ f (ballūṭa) (singulative) Aragonese: ballota (an) f Armenian: կաղին (hy) (kałin) Middle Armenian: պալուտ (palut) Aromanian: gljindã f, docãrã f, vãlani f Asturian: llande (ast) m, abeyota (ast) f, abellota (ast) f Azerbaijani: palıd qozası Basque: ezkur (eu) Belarusian: жо́луд m (žólud) Breton: mez (br) f pl Bulgarian: жъ́лъд (bg) m (žǎ́lǎd) Catalan: gla (ca) f Catawba: tumo (plural) Central Mazahua: løjø Central Sierra Miwok: watýkˑa-, watýk·a- Cherokee: ᎫᎴ (gule) Chinese: Cantonese: 橡子 (zoeng6 zi2) Mandarin: 橡子 (zh) (xiàngzǐ), 橡果 (xiàngguǒ) Classical Nahuatl: āhuacuauhtomatl, āhuatomatl Cree: ᒥᐢᑎᑯᒥᐣ (mistikomin, literally “oak berry”), ᒥᐢᑎᑯᐹᑲᐣ (mistikopaakan, literally “oak nut”) Czech: žalud (cs) m Danish: agern (da) n Dhivehi: ކަށި ބުރޮޅި‎ (kaṣi buroḷi) Dutch: eikel (nl) m Esperanto: glano (eo) Estonian: tammetõru Faroese: akarn n, eikinøt f Finnish: tammenterho (fi) French: gland (fr) m Friulian: gland m Galician: belota (gl) f, landra (gl) f Georgian: რკო (rḳo) German: Eichel (de) f Greek: βελανίδι (el) n (velanídi) Ancient: βάλανος f (bálanos) Hebrew: בַּלּוּט‎ (he) m (balút) Hindi: बाँजफल m (bāñjphal) Hungarian: makk (hu) Icelandic: akarn n Ido: glano (io) Interlingua: glande Irish: dearcán m Italian: ghianda (it) f Japanese: どんぐり (ja) (donguri), 団栗 (ja) (どんぐり, donguri) Kashaya: biʔdu Kazakh: емен жаңғағы (emen jañğağy) Korean: 도토리 (ko) (dotori) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: belot (ku) Kyrgyz: жёлудь (jyoludʹ) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latgalian: zeile f Latin: glans f Latvian: zīle f, ozolzīle f Lezgi: мегъв (meġv) Lithuanian: gilė f Luxembourgish: Eechel f Macedonian: желад m (želad), жир m (žir) Malagasy: voan'oaka Maori: huaōki Middle English: acorn Mohegan-Pequot: anôhcum Nahuatl : ahuatomatl (nah) Navajo: chéchʼil binááʼ Neapolitan: ghiàndra f, gliandra f Norman: tchênelle f Norwegian: kongle m or f, åkorn n Bokmål: eikenøtt m or f Nynorsk: eikenøtt f Occitan: agland (oc) m Ohlone: Northern Ohlone: yuu Ojibwe: mitigomin Old Church Slavonic: желѫдь m (želǫdĭ) Old English: æcern n Ossetian: гыркъо (gyrk’o) Panamint: wiyan, wiyampi Persian: بلوط‎ (fa) (balut) Polabian: zelǫd f Polish: żołądź (pl) m Portuguese: bolota (pt) f Romanian: ghindă (ro) f Romansch: glogn, glonda, glànd, glanda Russian: жёлудь (ru) m (žóludʹ) Sardinian: landha, landhe, landi Saterland Frisian: Äkkene n Scanian: agarn m Scots: aicorn Scottish Gaelic: dearc-dharaich f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: жи̑р m, желуд m Roman: žȋr (sh) m, želud m Sicilian: ghianna (scn) f Silesian: ajchel f Slovak: žaluď m Slovene: želod (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: žołź m Upper Sorbian: žołdź m Southern Ohlone: rappak Spanish: bellota (es) f Sudovian: gile Swedish: ekollon (sv) n Tabasaran: мяхъв (mjaq°) Tagalog: ensina, belyota Tajik: балут (balut) Thai: ผลต้นโอ๊ก (pǒn-dtôn-óok) Turkish: palamut (tr) Ukrainian: жо́лудь (uk) m (žóludʹ) Uyghur: دۇب ياڭىقى‎ (dub ya'ngiqi), دۇب ئۇرۇقى‎ (dub uruqi), توڭگۇز ياڭىقى‎ (tongguz ya'ngiqi), بەللۇت‎ (bellut) Uzbek: choʻchqayongʻoq (uz) Vietnamese: đầu (vi) Vilamovian: achuł f Volapük: kvär (vo), (older word, obsolete) gölogafluk Walloon: gland (wa) f Welsh: mes (cy) f pl Yiddish: חזיר־ניסל‎ n (khazer-nisl)

See also

• acorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Carno, Coran, Corna, acron, caron, coran, narco, narco-, racon

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• accherne, accorn, accorne, acharn, acorne, acurne, acre, akire, akkorn, akorn, hakern, ocorn

Etymology

From Old English æcern, from Proto-West Germanic *akran, from Proto-Germanic *akraną.

The last element of this word is often remodelled on corn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːkər/, /ˈakɔrn/, /ˈaːkɔrn/

Noun

acorn

1. An acorn or similar fruit.

Descendants

• English: acorn
• Scots: aicorn

References

• “ā̆korn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.