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Peri vs Pern - What's the difference?

peri | pern |

As verbs the difference between peri and pern

is that peri is to perish while pern is to take profit of; to make profitable.

As a noun pern is

part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle or pern can be a honey buzzard; pernis apivorus .

peri

English

(wikipedia peri)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Persian mythology) A sprite or supernatural being; from Persian mythology and the folklore of neighboring nations .
  • * 1829 , The Adventures of Hatim-Beni-Tye'', ''The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Volume 27: January—June 1829 , page 549,
    • He sent a Peri to Chundum Dew with a message: "If you wish to live, release the mortal in your power: if not, every demon in your service will immediately be put to the sword."
  • * 1916 (Mar 16), Alfred Richard Orage, ?Arthur Moore, The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art , page 473
    • In an hour they hovered above Hampstead Heath, and the peri looked down for a lonely spot where she might alight in the sulphurous gloom of a dog-day sunset too blinding for anyone to look at
  • * 2008 , A Fire in My Heart: Kurdish Tales , page 75
    • The Padishah's son was also there, and he realized that the peri looked very familiar.

    Synonyms

    * (sprite) fairy, pixie, sprite

    Anagrams

    * ----

    pern

    English

    Etymology 1

    Presumably from a verb .Charles Moorman, ''The Works of the Gawain-Poet (1977), ISBN 978-1-60473-409-6, page 324. See also pirl.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle
  • * 1813 February 4, "Specification of the Patent granted to William Broughton for a Method of making a peculiar Species of Canvas", in The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture , page 72:
  • * 1851 , Official catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 , page 38:
    • Model of a patent machine for winding yarn from the hank, upon the shuttlecope or pern .
  • * 1894 , The New Technical Educator: An Encyclopaedia of Technical Education , volume 3, page 234:
    • In one division the spindles carry the bobbins revolving inside a kind of cup or cone fitting down upon the pern , and the latter is shaped to fit accurately this conical surface.
    Derived terms
    * perne v.(?) (Yeats) * perning (Yeats)

    Etymology 2

    19th century, after the taxonomical name Pernis (Cuvier 1816).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A honey buzzard; Pernis apivorus .

    • Etymology 3

    See pernancy.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take profit of; to make profitable.
    • (Sylvester)

    References

    (Webster 1913)