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Gern vs Hern - What's the difference?

gern | hern |

As a verb gern

is to grin.

As a noun hern is

corner.

As a pronoun hern is

hers; her own.

gern

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To grin.
  • (obsolete) To yawn.
  • * Spenser
    • [He] gaped like a gulf when he did gern .
    (Webster 1913) ----

    hern

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) herne, hyrne, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) Corner.

    • Etymology 2

    From , formed by analogy with (mine), (thine). Compare (l). Displaced in standard speech by the -s form, (m), which see for more.

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • Hers; her own.

    • Etymology 3

    Dialectal variant of (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal, or, poetic) heron.
  • * 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 73:
    • "Now for Swans'' & ''Ducks'', and such like ''Birds'' of the ''Water'', it is obvious to take notice how well they are fitted for that manner of life. For those that swim, their ''Feet'' are framed for it like a pair of ''Oars'', their ''Claws'' being connected with a pretty broad Membrane; and their ''Necks'' are long, that they may dive deep enough into the water. As also the ''Neck'' of the ''Hern'' , and such like Fowl who live of Fishes, and are fain to frequent their Element, who walk on long stilts also like the people that dwell in the Marshes; but their ''Claws have no such Membranes, for they had been but a hindrance to those kind of Birds that onely wade in the water, and do not swim."
    English third person pronouns ----