See dern in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "dernen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English dernen",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "dyrnan"
},
"expansion": "Old English dyrnan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*darnijan",
"4": "",
"5": "to conceal"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *darnijan (“to conceal”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "dernian",
"3": "",
"4": "to conceal"
},
"expansion": "Old Saxon dernian (“to conceal”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "tarnen",
"3": "",
"4": "to camougflage, disguise"
},
"expansion": "German tarnen (“to camougflage, disguise”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English dernen, dærnen, from Old English dyrnan, diernan (“to keep secret, conceal, hide, restrain, repress, hide oneself”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan (“to conceal”), from *darnī (“hidden, secret”). Cognate with Old Saxon dernian (“to conceal”), German tarnen (“to camougflage, disguise”). See also darn, tarnish.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "derns",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "derning",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "derned",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
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"past"
]
}
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}
],
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"pos": "verb",
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{
"word": "darn"
},
{
"word": "tarnish"
}
],
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"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1865, Hugh Miller, My schools and schoolmasters:",
"text": "He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To hide; secrete, as in a hole."
],
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"(transitive, obsolete) To hide; secrete, as in a hole."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
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"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1584, Thomas Hudson, Judith:",
"text": "But look how soon they heard of Holoferne / Their courage quail'd, and they began to derne.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To hide oneself; skulk."
],
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To hide oneself; skulk."
],
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"intransitive",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
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},
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}
],
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}
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"expansion": "Uncertain",
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]
}
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{
"categories": [
"British English"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Ch. XIV, How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the Gubbings\nSo I just put my eye between the wall and the dern of the gate, and I saw him come up to the back door […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A gatepost or doorpost."
],
"links": [
[
"gatepost",
"gatepost"
],
[
"doorpost",
"doorpost"
]
],
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"(UK) A gatepost or doorpost."
],
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"UK"
]
}
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},
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}
],
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}
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