- diernan
- \diernan1 wv/t1b to keep secret, conceal, hide, restrain, repress; (1) w.a. thing; (2) w.d. person, from whom a thing (acc) is concealed; hide oneself
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darn — English has two distinct words darn. The verb ‘mend with stitches’ [16] may come ultimately from an Old English verb diernan ‘hide’, a derivative of the adjective dierne ‘secret’, which in turn was descended from West Germanic *darnjaz. Darn the… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
dern — secret, hidden (obsolete), from O.E. derne concealed, secret, dark, from W.Gmc. *darnjaz (Cf. O.S. derni, O.Fris. dern, O.H.G. tarni secret, concealed ). As a verb, to conceal, from O.E. diernan to hide. Cf. O.H.G. tarnjan to conceal, hide; Ger.… … Etymology dictionary
darn — darn1 verb mend (knitted material) by interweaving yarn across it with a needle. ↘embroider with a large running stitch. noun a place in a garment that has been darned. Derivatives darning noun Origin C17: perh. from dialect dern to hide , from… … English new terms dictionary
tarnen — tarnen: Das Verb mhd. tarnen, ahd. tarnan ist abgeleitet von dem Adjektiv ahd. tarni »heimlich, verborgen«, das auch als erster Bestandteil in Tarnkappe steckt. Diese Zusammensetzung (mhd. tarnkappe »Tarnmantel«; zu mhd. kappe »Mantel mit… … Das Herkunftswörterbuch
Tarnkappe — tarnen: Das Verb mhd. tarnen, ahd. tarnan ist abgeleitet von dem Adjektiv ahd. tarni »heimlich, verborgen«, das auch als erster Bestandteil in Tarnkappe steckt. Diese Zusammensetzung (mhd. tarnkappe »Tarnmantel«; zu mhd. kappe »Mantel mit… … Das Herkunftswörterbuch
darn — English has two distinct words darn. The verb ‘mend with stitches’ [16] may come ultimately from an Old English verb diernan ‘hide’, a derivative of the adjective dierne ‘secret’, which in turn was descended from West Germanic *darnjaz. Darn the… … Word origins
