Erne

Definition: Erne

Erne

Noun

1. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland.

Date "erne" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
ERNE	English	Energetic and Relativistic Nuclei and Electron Experiment	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Erne

Synonyms: ern (n), gray sea eagle (n), white-tailed sea eagle (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	Henry's Upper Lough Erne in 1739 (reference) Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Volume 14: Co Fermanagh II: Lower Lough Erne (reference) Shell guide to the River Shannon : includes Shannon-Erne Waterway and the Erne Navigation (reference) Song of Erne (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Ruins, Devenish Island, Lough Erne.Credit: Library of Congress.
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"Erne" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Erne" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	27	66,962

The following table summarizes the usage of "erne" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Erne	Last name	300	26,619
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "erne"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏الأرن نسر بحري. (various references)

Bulgarian		Орел. (various references)

Czech		Orel (eagle, tail). (various references)

French		Albatros. (various references)

Greek		Ερνέστοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		Rétisas (osprey). (various references)

Pig Latin		erneay

Portuguese		Pigarço (piebald), Arminho (stoat). (various references)

Russian		Орлан-белохвост. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		orao (eagle). (various references)

Swedish		Havsörn (white-tailed eagle). (various references)

Thai		นกอินทรีทะเลปีกยาวพันธุ์ยุโรป มีชื่อใน� าษาละตินว่า Haliactus albicilla (ern). (various references)

Turkish		Denizkartalı. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old English	450-1100	earn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "erne": ernes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "erne": caserne, eterne, externe, interne, kerne, lierne, lucerne, moderne, sauterne, terne. (additional references)
	Words containing "erne": bitterness, bitternesses, cabernet, cabernets, casernes, caverned, cleverness, clevernesses, concerned, cybernetic, cybernetical, cybernetically, cybernetician, cyberneticians, cyberneticist, cyberneticists, cybernetics, dapperness, dappernesses, decerned, discerned, discerner, discerners, eagerness, eagernesses, easterner, easterners, externes, ferneries, fernery, foreverness, forevernesses, governed, governess, governesses, governessy, improperness, impropernesses, internecine, interned, internee, internees, internes, interneuron, interneuronal, interneurons, inverness, invernesses, kerned, kernel, kerneled. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Erne" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arne, derne, eane, Edne, Eeney, efne, Efren, Ehren, eine, Einem, Ejner, elne, ene, ener, eni, enr, enra, enri, eone, erane, erbe, erce, erde, Erdnow, eren, erence, Ereng, erhe, erine, erlen, Erme, ernes, Erni, ernia, Ernic, ernie, Ernir, Erno, erns, erny, eroe, Eroni, erpe, erroe, Erte, Erzen, esne, Esneh, exrn, exrnr, eyne, ferne, Fernex, Irne, Jernej, kerne, orne, Perne, rene, rener, terne, Werne. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "erne" (pronounced er"n)
2	er" n	adjourn, burn, churn, concern, discern, durn, earn, fern, Hern, Kern, Kirn, learn, return, sauterne, spurn, stern, turn, unconcern, upturn, urn, yearn.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-n-r"
	-1 letter: ere, ern, nee, ree.
	-2 letters: en, er, ne, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-n-r"
	+1 letter: ender, enter, enure, ernes, genre, green, kerne, nerve, never, newer, preen, ranee, renew, rente, sneer, terne, treen.
	+2 letters: bender, boreen, careen, censer, center, centre, crenel, decern, denier, denser, earned, earner, encore, endear, enders, endure, energy, enrage, enrobe, enserf, ensure, entera, enters, entire, entree, enured, enures, envier, erenow, ermine, eterne, evener, extern, fencer, fender, ferine, gender, genera, genres, gerent, germen, greens, greeny, gyrene, herein, hereon, inhere, keener, kerned, kernel, kernes, leaner, lender, lierne, meaner, mender, mermen, moreen, neared, nearer, neater, necker, needer, nereid, nereis, nerved, nerves, nester, nether, netter, neuter, opener, penner, pereon, preens, premen, pyrene, ranees, recane, recent, redden, redeny, redone, reearn, refine, regent, reined, relend, relent, reline, remend, rename, rended, render, renege, renest, renews, rennet, rented, renter, rentes, reopen, repent, repine, reseen, resend, resent, resewn, retene, retine, retune, rezone, screen, secern, seiner, sender, serein, serene, serine, sneers, teener, tender, tenner, tenrec, tenser, tenter, tenure, ternes, treens, triene, tureen, unfree, unreel, veiner, vender, veneer, venery, venire, venter, weaner, weiner, wiener.
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