sarn

See also: Sarn

English

Etymology

From Welsh sarn (“a causeway, paving”).

Noun

sarn (plural sarns)

1. (archaic, Wales) A pavement or stepping stone.
2. (archaic, Wales) A causeway.
   • 1906, H.C. Tierney, “What Does "Pensarn" Mean”, in Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club, volumes 1-6, page 23:

     "Not now," he went on, "but there was a high sarn formerly, and only for that both vehicles and foot passengers would ovten have found it impossible to get into Carmarthen from that direction. The tides and floods there were terrible in those times."

   • 1913, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, page 105:

     The ground in the immediate neighbourhood is somewhat boggy and treacherous, and a 'sarn' has doubtless always been necessary for traversing the bog.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sarn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Arns, Nasr, RNAS, RNAs, sRNA, snar, srna

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsarn/
• Rhymes: -arn
• Syllabification: sarn

Noun

sarn f

1. genitive plural of sarna

   Synonym: saren

Further reading

• sarn in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sarna, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *śarna. Cognates include Finnish saarna.

Noun

sarn

1. tale, story

Declension

Inflection of sarn (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	sarn
genitive sing.	sarnan
partitive sing.	sarnad
partitive plur.	sarnoid
	singular	plural
nominative	sarn	sarnad
accusative	sarnan	sarnad
genitive	sarnan	sarnoiden
partitive	sarnad	sarnoid
essive-instructive	sarnan	sarnoin
translative	sarnaks	sarnoikš
inessive	sarnas	sarnoiš
elative	sarnaspäi	sarnoišpäi
illative	sarnaha	sarnoihe
adessive	sarnal	sarnoil
ablative	sarnalpäi	sarnoilpäi
allative	sarnale	sarnoile
abessive	sarnata	sarnoita
comitative	sarnanke	sarnoidenke
prolative	sarnadme	sarnoidme
approximative I	sarnanno	sarnoidenno
approximative II	sarnannoks	sarnoidennoks
egressive	sarnannopäi	sarnoidennopäi
terminative I	sarnahasai	sarnoihesai
terminative II	sarnalesai	sarnoilesai
terminative III	sarnassai	—
additive I	sarnahapäi	sarnoihepäi
additive II	sarnalepäi	sarnoilepäi

Welsh

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to spread”), perhaps via Proto-Celtic *star-no- (see Proto-Celtic *starnati (“to strew”)).

Noun

sarn f (plural sarnau, not mutable)

1. causeway
2. stepping stones, pathway

Derived terms

• Sarn (places in Wales)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
sarn	unchanged	unchanged	unchanged