Ern vs Eon - What's the difference?
ern | eon |
To run; flow.
To (cause to) coagulate; curdle (milk) by adding rennet and applying heat.
(obsolete) To stir with strong emotion; grieve; mourn.
To pain; torture.
(of the eyes) To cause to water; smart.
(US) Eternity.
A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
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(geology) The longest time period used in geology.
(US, informal, hyperbole) A long period of time.
A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
As initialisms the difference between ern and eon
is that ern is nakfa, the currency used in eritrea while eon is (politics) , it was formed before wwii and disbanded in 1941.ern
English
Etymology 1
Alteration of (erne)Etymology 2
From (etyl) ernen, from (etyl) irnan, . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
Of obscure origin. Perhaps an alteration of erme, from (etyl) ermen, from (etyl) yrman, ierman. Compare also Old Scots urn, uren. More at (l).Verb
(en verb)Anagrams
* * ----eon
English
Alternative forms
* aeon (chiefly British or Gnostic) * (qualifier)Noun
(wikipedia eon) (en noun)citation, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
- It's been eons since we last saw each other.