Dernとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• dearn, darn

語源 1

From 中期英語 dern, derne, from 古期英語 dyrne, dierne (“secret”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”).

名詞

dern (plural derns)

1. (obsolete) A secret; secrecy.
2. (obsolete) A secret place; hiding.
3. (obsolete) An obscure language.
4. (obsolete) Darkness; obscurity.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 dern, derne, from 古期英語 dyrne, dierne (“hidden, secret, retired, obscure, remote, eluding detection, concealed, deceitful, evil, magical”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”). Doublet of terne.

形容詞

dern (comparative more dern, superlative most dern)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) Hidden; secret; private.
   • 1659, Dr. H. More, Immortal, of the Soul:

     Now with their backs to the den's mouth they sit, / Yet shoulder not all light from the dern pit.

   • 1819, J. R. Drake, The Culprit Fay:

     Through dreary beds of tangled fern, / Through groves of nightshade dark and dern.

派生語

語源 3

From 中期英語 dernen, dærnen, from 古期英語 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.

動詞

dern (third-person singular simple present derns, present participle derning, simple past and past participle derned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To hide; secrete, as in a hole.
   • 1865, Hugh Miller, My schools and schoolmasters:

     He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To hide oneself; skulk.
   • 1584, Thomas Hudson, Judith:

     But look how soon they heard of Holoferne / Their courage quail'd, and they began to derne.

関連する語

• darn
• tarnish

語源 4

Uncertain. Maybe related to door.

名詞

dern (plural derns)

1. (UK) A gatepost or doorpost.
   • 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Ch. XIV, How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the Gubbings

     So I just put my eye between the wall and the dern of the gate, and I saw him come up to the back door […]

アナグラム

• NERD, nerd, rend