Hearn vs Hern - What's the difference?
hearn | hern |
(dialectal)
* {{quote-book, year=1857, author=S. H. Hammond, title=Wild Northern Scenes, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I've hearn it said that when a man has eaten a hearty dinner, and goes to sleep with the hot sun pourin' right down on him, he's apt to see and hear a good many strange things before he wakes up. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=Charles Felton Pidgin, title=Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks, chapter=, edition=
, passage="'Tis a trifle early, but I hearn tell that lyin' makes people hungry." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Grace MacGowan Cooke, title=The Power and the Glory, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Like enough he's hearn of that silver mine, and that's the reason he's after Johnnie." }}
(dialectal, or, poetic) heron.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 73:
As a verb hearn
is past participle of lang=en.As a proper noun Hearn
is {{surname}.As a noun hern is
corner.As a pronoun hern is
hers; her own.hearn
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* *hern
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) herne, hyrne, from (etyl) . More at (l).Etymology 2
From , formed by analogy with (mine), (thine). Compare (l). Displaced in standard speech by the -s form, (m), which see for more.Etymology 3
Dialectal variant of (m).Noun
(en noun)- "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."