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acorn
*g-
*ag-
*og- (W3)
Den Werdegang von engl. "acorn" = dt. "Eichel" nachzuvollziehen ist nicht gerade einfach. Möglicherweise ist nicht mehr klar zu erkennen, welchen Anteil die Volksetymologie dabei einnimmt.
Vermutlich liegt als Wurzel ide. "*g-", "*ag-", "*og-", "*hógeh-" = dt. "wachsen", "Frucht", "Beere", engl. "grow", "fruit", "berry" zu Grunde. Als ältere Formen findet man mengl. "akorn", "acorne", altengl. "æcern", "akern" = dt. "Nuß", "Mastfutter von Waldbäumen", got. "akran" ("Frucht der Weide", "Ertrag der Eiche und Buche"), altnord. "akarn", proto-germ. "*akrana". Verwandt damit wären althdt. "ackeran", nddt. "ecker", dt. "Ecker", fries. "äkkene", fläm., ndl. "aker", dän. "agern", norw. "aakorn", ir. "áirne" (= dt. "Schlehe"), lit. "úoga".
Dies vorausgesetzt würde sich die Verbindung zur Wurzel ide. "*aug-" = dt. "wachsen", "aufstocken", "erhöhen", "steigen", "steigern", "vergrößern" anbieten, und damit zu einer großen Wortfamilie in der man dt. "August" ("der Erhabene"), dt. "Augment" zu lat. "augmentum" = dt. "Vermehrung", "Zuwachs", lat. "augere" = dt. "steigern", "vergrößern"), dt. "Auktion", engl. "auction" = dt. "Versteigerung" und viele andere antreffen kann.
Möglicherweise gibt es noch eine assoziative Verbindung über "Ertrag des offenen Landes", engl. "fruit of the open or unenclosed land") zu altengl. "æcer" = engl. "open land", got. "akrs", "akr-s" = dt. "Feld", "Weide", altfrz. "aigrun" = dt. "Frucht", "Gemüse", engl. "fruits and vegetables", zu einem fränkischen Ausgangswort und damit zu dt. "Acker", engl. "acre". Auf diesem Wege gelangt man zu ide. "*agro-s" = dt. "Feld", "Ackerland", und einem Verb ide. "*ag-" = dt. "(mit geschwungenen Armen) treiben". Die Verbindung stellt die Interpretation "Land außerhalb der Siedlungen, wohin das Vieh zum Weiden und Düngen des Bodens getrieben wurde" (Quelle: Duden - Das Herkunftswörterbuch).
Zwischenzeitlich kam es dann wohl zur volksetymologischen Verbindung zu altengl. "ac" = engl. "oak" = dt. "Eiche", ndl. "eik", schwed. "ek", dän. "eg" und engl. "corn" = engl. "grain" = dt. "Korn", "Getreide". Die dadurch geänderte Schreibweise erfolgte im 15. und 16. Jh. zu "ake-corn", "oke-corn", "ake-horn", "oke-horn". Im 17. Jh. kam die Schreibweise engl. "acron" auf, wohl in Angleichung an griech. "a'kron", "akron" = dt. "Spitze", "Gipfel", engl. "top", "point", "peak".
Wie die Entwicklung genau verlief läßt sich anscheinend nicht mehr mit Sicherheit nachvollziehen. Heute ist engl. "acorn" aber aufgeladen mit den Konnotationen "Frucht", "Acker", "Viehtrieb", "Eiche", "Korn", "Eicheln".
"glans" L. "glans" = "acorn". Used for the head of the penis, which is shaped somewhat like an "acorn".
"Acorn" als Farbe: - #785840 - Acorn
Bei Adelung findet man:
Die "Eichel", plur. die -n,
1) Die längliche runde Frucht des Eichbaumes, welche vornehmlich zur Mastung der Schweine gebraucht wird. Die Schweine in die Eicheln schlagen, oder treiben. S. "Dachseichel" und "Harzeichel".
2) Figürlich, die Gestalt einer Eichel habend. Besonders wird so wohl in der Anatomie, als im gemeinem Leben, der äußerste Theil des männlichen Gliedes die Eichel genannt.
Anm. Die "Eichel", im Österreichischen "Dechel", ist vermittelst der Ableitungssylbe "-el" von dem Worte "Eiche" gebildet. Daß diese Form schon alt ist, erhellet aus dem Griech. "???", "Eichel", welches bereits bey dem Homer vorkommt, aber, dem Plato zu Folge, von nördlichern Völkern entlehnet ist. Ihre leitet unser Hochdeutsches "Eichel" von dem Schwed. "Ekallon" her, welches aus "Allon", "Frucht", zusammen gesetzt ist, und eigentlich "Eichfrucht" bedeutet; eine Ableitung, welche bey dem hohen Alter des Deutschen Wortes nicht Stich hält. Im Dän. heißt die "Eichel" nur schlechthin "Ollen" und "Olden", von dem alten "ala", "nähren" "alere", womit das Griech. "???" verwandt zu seyn scheinet.
Die gemeinen Mundarten Ober- und Niederdeutschlandes haben, so wie die nördlichen Sprachen, noch ein anderes Wort, die Frucht des Eichbaumes zu bezeichnen, welches "Ecker", Nieders. "Ekker", Dän. "Äggern", Angels. "Accaeren", "Accorn", "Aecern", Engl. "Acorn", Isl. "Akern", Griech. "???", lautet, aber so wie das Goth. "Akran" ursprünglich eine jede Frucht bedeutet. Die Frucht des Buchbaumes heißt im Österreichischen "Ackeram", an andern Orten "Buchecker", S. "Buscheichel". In einigen eigenthümlichen Nahmen, z. B. "Eichelstein", soll "Eichel" aus dem Latein. "Aquila" verderbt seyn. Schilter kennet noch ein anderes Wort "eichel", welches "ganz" bedeutet haben soll. Doch er führet zu dessen Beweise nur die Oberdeutschen Ausdrücke, "eichel" "ganz", "eichel" "weis", d. i. "völlig ganz" an, welche aber auch Figuren von "Eichel", "glans", seyn können, weil an der glatten runden Eichel die geringste Verstümmelung sichtbar ist.
(E?)(L?) http://antiques.about.com/od/regionalantiquing/ig/Round-Top-Antiques-Show/Acorn-Advertising-Sign-at-RT.htm
Acorn Advertising Sign in Warrenton
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[ACORN] (s.xiii/xiv)
accorne, acron, akorne; hacorne,
(pl. askernes)
[ FEW: Ø; Gdf: Ø; GdfC: Ø; TL: Ø; DEAF: Ø; DMF: Ø; TLF: Ø; OED: acorn n.; MED: akorn n.; DMLBS: Ø ]
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"acorn" in ASCII-Darstellung
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About 14 results: "acorn"
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Space Acorn
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery
Instruments of Science, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience, Unusual Monuments
04 Jul 2013
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Acorn Park
Silver Spring, Maryland
Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring
Architectural Oddities, Follies and Grottoes, Outsider Architecture
24 Jun 2009
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Atlas Results for "acorn"
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This one-man homegrown eatery may be the world's most exclusive restaurant with its five-year waiting list
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Major Oak
The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
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Origanum vulgare ( Acorn Bank Oregano )
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Nelumbo pentapetala ( Duck Acorn )
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Casket - 2000yr old English Bog Oak
My sister Anthea and I each have casket about 7" tall by 4" diameter, of turned wood, shiny black and an "acorn" to lift the lid. They sit on our mantelpieces, now 150miles apart.
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Green pressed glass bowl
This glass bowl used to belong to the owner's aunt. It has lions as handles and "acorns" as decoration. It reminds the owner of her aunt and uncle's "Aladdin's cave" house.
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Stone Acorn from Parapet of the Circus
Stone Acorn from the Parapet of the Circus, c.1760, Gift from Mrs Jane Swift and Brown Morton III.
By placing acorns along the top of the Circus, John Wood was making references to both Bladud's discovery of the healing hot waters and to the Druids, who were the "Prince's of the Hollow Oak".
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Silver acorn pendant
This silver pendant conceals a ladies cigarette holder. It is an elegant way of catering to the new social habit of smoking, which was associated with the 'modern woman'.
(E?)(L?) http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/56410
2 Cynipid Wasp Acorn Galls Preserved In The La Brea Tar Pits (Early Holocene) By: Larew, H G
Type: Article
In: Proceedings of The Entomological Society of Washington
Volume: 89
Date: 1987
Page Range: 831--833
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Arboretum acorns to reforest Arroyo Seco
Type: Article
In: Arboreta and botanic gardens : a publication of the Los Angeles County Department of Arboreta and Botanic Gardens.
Volume: v.4:no.1(1992:winter)
Date: 1989
Page Range: 9
Publication info: Arcadia, CA :California Arboretum Foundation,1989-
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Observations on food habits and social organization of acorn woodpeckers in Costa Rica
By: Stanback, M.T
Type: Article
In: The Condor
Volume: v. 91, no. 4, p. 1005-1007
Date: 1989
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"acorn": A particular kind of fruit produced by Oaks. A nut is held on the tree in a cup-like structure.
(E?)(L?) http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/3723.html
Twig, Acorn, and Leaf of the Bur Oak, 1955
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acorn
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acorn | acorn squash | acorn worm
(E?)(L?) http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=acorn
"acorn" (n.) Old English "æcern" "nut", common Germanic (cognates: Old Norse "akarn", Dutch "aker", Low German "ecker" "acorn", German "Ecker", Gothic "akran" "fruit"), originally the mast of any forest tree, and ultimately related (via notion of "fruit of the open or unenclosed land") to Old English "æcer" "open land", Gothic "akrs" "field", Old French "aigrun" "fruits and vegetables" (from Frankish or some other Germanic source); see "acre".
The sense gradually restricted in Low German, Scandinavian, and English to the most important of the forest produce for feeding swine, the mast of the oak tree. Spelling changed 15c.-16c. by folk etymology association with "oak" (Old English ac) and "corn" (n.1).
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ACORN TRIVIA
Acorns are true nuts, and are the fruit of the oak tree. They have a high content of tannins, making them bitter and astringent if eaten raw.
Some varieties are unpleasantly astringent and only suitable as food in time of famine. Other varieties, such as several growing in the Mediterranean area, are sweeter and some are considered comparable to chestnuts, especially in Spain and Portugal. White Oak and Chestnut Oak are two of the sweeter types and the Black and Red Oak are more bitter tasting.
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364 records found
Primary Title: A Man Knocking Acorns from a Tree
Maker Name: Unknown, illuminator
Type: Manuscripts
Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment
Place: Place Created: Bruges (possibly), Belgium
Date: mid-1200s
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
Object Number: Ms. 14, fol. 8
Department: Manuscripts
Dimensions: Leaf: 23.5 x 16.5 cm (9 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
Culture: Flemish
Primary Title: A Man Knocking Acorns from a Tree
Maker Name: Unknown, illuminator
Type: Manuscripts
Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment
Place: Place Created: Northeastern France, France
Date: about 1300
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
Object Number: Ms. Ludwig IX 3, fol. 11v
Department: Manuscripts
Dimensions: Leaf: 26.4 x 18.3 cm (10 3/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
Culture: French
Primary Title: A Man Knocking Acorns from a Tree
Maker Name: Workshop of the Rohan Master, illuminator (French, active about 1410 - 1440)
Type: Manuscripts
Medium: Tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and ink on parchment
Place: Place Created: Paris, France
Date: about 1415 - 1420
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
Object Number: Ms. 22, fol. 11v
Department: Manuscripts
Dimensions: Leaf: 20.5 x 14.8 cm (8 1/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
Culture: French
Primary Title: A Man Knocking Acorns from a Tree; Zodiacal Sign of Sagittarius
Maker Name: Workshop of Willem Vrelant, illuminator (Flemish, died 1481, active 1454 - 1481)
Type: Manuscripts
Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment
Place: Place Created: Bruges, Belgium
Date: early 1460s
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
Object Number: Ms. Ludwig IX 8, fol. 11
Department: Manuscripts
Dimensions: Leaf: 25.6 x 17.3 cm (10 1/16 x 6 13/16 in.)
Culture: Flemish
Primary Title: A Man Knocking Acorns from a Tree; Zodiacal Sign of Sagittarius
Maker Name: Unknown, illuminator
Type: Manuscripts
Medium: Tempera colors, gold, and ink on parchment
Place: Place Created: Tours, France
Date: about 1480 - 1485
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
Object Number: Ms. 6, fol. 6
Department: Manuscripts
Dimensions: Leaf: 16.4 x 11.6 cm (6 7/16 x 4 9/16 in.)
Culture: French
Primary Title: A Man Knocking Acorns from a Tree; Zodiacal Sign of Sagittarius
Maker Name: Unknown, illuminator
Type: Manuscripts
Medium: Tempera colors on parchment
Place: Place Created: Strasbourg, France
Date: early 16th century
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
Object Number: Ms. Ludwig IX 16, fol. 11
Department: Manuscripts
Dimensions: Leaf: 13.5 x 10.5 cm (5 5/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Culture: German
Primary Title: A Man Knocking Acorns from a Tree; Zodiacal Sign of Sagittarius
Maker Name: Master of the Brussels Initials, illuminator (Italian, active about 1389 - 1410)
Type: Manuscripts
Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink on parchment
Place: Place Created: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Date: between 1389 and 1404
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
Object Number: Ms. 34, fol. 6
Department: Manuscripts
Dimensions: Leaf: 33 x 24 cm (13 x 9 7/16 in.)
Culture: Italian
Primary Title: A Man Knocking Acorns from a Tree; Zodiacal Sign of Sagittarius
Maker Name: Master of the Lee Hours, illuminator (Flemish, active about 1450 - 1470)
Type: Manuscripts
Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment
Place: Place Created: Ghent (probably), Belgium
Date: about 1450 - 1455
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
Object Number: Ms. 2, fol. 11
Department: Manuscripts
Dimensions: Leaf: 19.4 x 14 cm (7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Culture: Flemish
Primary Title: A Man Knocking Acorns from a Tree; Zodiacal Sign of Sagittarius
Maker Name: Unknown, illuminator
Type: Manuscripts
Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment
Place: Place Created: Paris, France
Date: about 1250 - 1260
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
Object Number: Ms. Ludwig VIII 4, fol. 6
Department: Manuscripts
Dimensions: Leaf: 19.2 x 13.3 cm (7 9/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Culture: French
Primary Title: A Man Knocking Acorns from a Tree; Zodiacal Sign of Sagittarius
Maker Name: Follower of the Egerton Master, illuminator (French / Netherlandish, active about 1405 - 1420)
Type: Manuscripts
Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink on parchment
Place: Place Created: Paris, France
Date: about 1410
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
Object Number: Ms. Ludwig IX 5, fol. 11
Department: Manuscripts
Dimensions: Leaf: 19.1 x 14 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
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London, Jack, 1876-1916
The Acorn-Planter - A California Forest Play (1916) (English) (as Author)
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McElroy, John, 1846-1929
The Red Acorn (English) (as Author)
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Etymology
An "acorn" is the fruit of an oak tree, and something many animals and birds put away for the winter. Perhaps that's why it's associated with hidden gold.
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(E?)(L?) http://www.iobis.org/explore/#/taxon/745285
Enteropneusta [class] Gegenbaur, 1870
Common names...
- "eikelwormen" Dutch
- "acorn worms" English
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Balanus crenatus Bruguière, 1789
Common names...
- "gekartelde zeepok" Dutch
- "gekerfde zeepok" Dutch
- "An acorn barnacle" English
- "balane" French
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Acorns to Oaks
Friends of Rose Canyon
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PUTTING THE CORN IN ACORN.
... As the OED says: The formal history of this word has been much perverted by "popular etymology". OE. "æcern" neut., pl. "æcernu", is "cogn". w. ONor. "akarn" neut. (Dan. "agern", Norw. "aakorn"), Dutch "aker" "acorn", OHG. "ackeran" masc. and neut. (mod.G. "ecker", pl. "eckern") "oak or beech mast", Goth. "akran" "fruit", prob. a deriv. of Goth. "akr-s", ONor. "akr", OE. "æcer" "field", orig. "open unenclosed country", "the plain". Hence "akran" appears to have been originally "fruit of the unenclosed land", "natural produce of the forest", "mast of oak", beech, etc., as in HG., extended in Gothic to "fruit" generally, and gradually confined in Low G., Scand., and Eng., to the most important forest produce, the "mast of the oak". (See Grimm, under "Ackeran" and "Ecker".) In Ælfric's "Genesis" xliv. 11, it had perhaps still the wider sense, a reminiscence of which also remains in the ME. "akernes of okes". Along with this restriction of application, there arose a tendency to find in the name some connexion with "oak", OE. "ác", north. "ake", "aik". Hence the 15th and 16th c. refashionings "ake-corn", "oke-corn", "ake-horn", "oke-horn", with many pseudo-etymological and imperfectly phonetic variants. Of these the 17th c. literary "acron" seems to simulate the Gr. "a'kron" top, point, peak. The normal mod. repr. of OE. "æcern" would be "akern", "akren", or ? "atchern" as already in [the 14th c.]; the actual "acorn" is due to the 16th c. fancy that the word "corn" formed part of the name.
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(E?)(L?) http://www.lib.ru/ENGLISH/american_idioms.txt
- [acorn] See: GREAT OAKS PROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW.
- [from little acorns] See: GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW.
- [great oaks from little acorns grow] As great oak trees grow from tiny acorns, so many great people or things grew from a small and unimportant beginning, so be patient. - A proverb. * /Many great men were once poor, unimportant boys. Great oaks from little acorns grow./
- [grow] See: GREAT OAKS PROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW, LET GRASS GROW UNDER ONE'S FEET.
- [little] See: A LITTLE, A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE IS A DANGEROUS THING, GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW, LITTLE FROG IN A BIG POND, MAKE LITTLE OF, NOT A LITTLE, QUITE A LITTLE or QUITE A LITTLE BIT, THINK LITTLE OF, TWIST AROUND ONE'S LITTLE FINGER.
- [oak] See: GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW.
- [rainy day] {n.} A time of need; especially: a time when you really need money. * /Squirrels gather acorns for a rainy day./ * /Each week Mrs. Carlson saved a little money for a rainy day./
(E?)(L?) http://www.linguee.de/downloads/completeDict-latin9.txt
dt. "Hutmutter" = engl. "acorn nut"
(E?)(L?) https://www.linotype.com/de/145214/acorn-schriftfamilie.html?site=details
Über Acorn Schriftfamilie
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- "Blind hog/pig finds an acorn" (1883, 1889) Bapopik
- Blind Hog...Biggest Acorn (1900) [was Re: Blind Squirrel (1951)] Rachel E. Shuttlesworth
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- Acorn Squash (1845); Orange Pekoe (1840); Imperial Crab (1945) Bapopik
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Vocabulari: Botànica
Fitxa del terme:
- ca "gla" f
- ca "aglà" m
- es "bellota" f
- fr "gland" m
- en "acorn" n
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William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine
"ACORN" (pomme de girülette, Fr.) a little ornamental piece of wood, fashioned like a cone, and fixed on the uppermost point of the spindle, above the vane, on the mast-head. It is used to keep the vane from being blown off from the spindle in a whirlwind, or when the ship leans much to one side under sail.
See plate I. Fig. 1. where a represents the acorn, b the vane and stock, c the spindle, and d the mast-head.
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Limericks on "acorn"
acorn | acorn barnacle | acorn calf | acorn cup | acorn doesn't fall far from the tree, the | acorned | acorn nut | acorn-shell | acorn shell | acorn squash | acorn tree | acorn worm |
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"acorn": fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base; [more definitions...]
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As You Like It
With one Duke exiled, his younger brother takes his place in the court; a pair of girls, Rosalind and Celia, the daughters of each Duke, are forced by the new Duke’s anger and their ties of friendship to travel into the Forest of Arden, followed by a courtier, Touchstone. In the forest where the elder […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
One of Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular plays, and also one of the most frequently reinterpreted. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was systematically cut and blended with other works, David Garrick’s version (1755), entitled *The Fairies*, contained, for example, only 600 of the original lines to which were added several lyrics by Dryden. The […]
The Tempest
*The Tempest* is generally accepted as Shakespeare’s last complete play, with a performance date around 1611. In the 1623 First Folio of his collected works its novelty is probably the reason for its being placed first; its opening storm scene fronts the book, literally starting proceedings ‘with a bang’. The shipwreck of a royal party […]
Cymbeline
A play of politics and prophecy, masques and magic, gods and ghosts, nightmares and nationalism, *Cymbeline* (c. 1609-11) resists categorization. Like The Winter’s Tale it traces a fine line between comedy and tragedy; like Antony and Cleopatra it vacillates between the epic scale of the histories and the intimate focus of the romances. But perhaps […]
(E?)(L?) http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/concordance/
acorn (3)acorn-cups (1)
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Proto-Germanic: "*akarna-n" / "*akrana-n", "*akirna-n" Meaning: "acorn"
IE etymology: IE etymology
Proto-IE: "*ag-" (~ "*og-")
Meaning: "fruit", "berry"
Tokharian: A, B "oko" "fruit" (Adams 109)
Slavic: "*ágoda"; "*vin-jága"
Baltic: "*ôg-â" f., "-a-" c. (2)
Germanic: "*ak-ar-n-a-" / "*ak-r-an-a-" n., "*ak-ir-n-a-" n.
Celtic: OIr "airne" ("*agrinia") "Schlehe", Cymr "aeron" "Baumfrüchte", "eirin-en" "Pflaume" MBret. "irin", MBret. "hirin" "Schlehe"
Russ. meaning: "???"
References: WP II 173 f
Gothic: "akran" n. (a) "fruit", "results"
Old Norse: "akarn" n. "Frucht wildwachsender Bäume"
Norwegian: dial. "okorn" "Eichel"
Swedish: dial. "akarn" "Eichel"
Danish: "agern" "Eichel"
Old English: "äcern" ("äcirn"), -es n. "corn or fruit of an oak", "acorn", "nut"; {"äcren", "äceru"}
English: "acorn"
Middle Dutch: "aker" m. "eikel"
Dutch: "aker" m.
Middle Low German: "eker", "ekeren", "ecker", "eckeren", "aker", "akeren", "acker", "ackeren" "Eichel", "Eichelmast"
Middle High German: "ackeran", "ecker" st. m., n. "Frucht der Eiche und Buche"
German: "Ecker" f.
(E?)(L?) http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/acorn
"acorn": Casual term for the head of a penis.
Etymology: The medical term for the head of the penis, "glans-penis", is derived from the Latin "glans", an "acorn". See penis for synonyms.
(E?)(L?) http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/acorn-picker
"acorn-picker": In gay terms of the 1960s, a fellator, based on "acorn", another word for "glans-penis". See fellator for synonyms.
(E?)(L?) http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/acorns
"acorns": A food and form metaphor for the testicles. See penis for synonyms.
(E?)(L?) http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/little%20acorns
"little acorns": A metaphor for the testicles. See penis for synonyms.
(E?)(L?) https://www.shakespeareswords.com/Glossary?let=f
"full-acorned" (adj.): "fed full of acorns"
(E1)(L1) http://www.takeourword.com/TOW182/page2.html#acorn
acorn/oak
If oak trees produce acorns, then why aren't they called acorn trees? Or why not call acorns oak seeds or oak fruits? Does it have to do with the etymology of acorn?
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- acorn attack
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- Acorn Cock
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- Acorn Cunt
- Acornd
- acorn dance
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- Acorned
- A Corner Creeper
- Acorn Fight
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- Acornhole
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(E?)(L?) http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/phylum#word=A
- "acorn" fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
- "acorn barnacle" barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones
- "acorn cup" cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn
- "acorn-shaped" shaped like an acorn
- "acorn squash" squash plant bearing small acorn-shaped fruits having yellow flesh and dark green or yellow rind with longitudinal ridges
- "acorn tube" a small vacuum tube; used at high frequencies
(E?)(L?) http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neuroroot.html
Neuroanatomical, Neurophysiological and Neuropsychological Terminology
"gland" - "acorn"
(E?)(L?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn
Acorn
The "acorn", or "oak nut", is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains a single seed (occasionally two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule. Acorns are 1-6 cm long and 0.8-4 cm broad. Acorns take between 6 and 24 months (depending on the species) to mature; see List of Quercus species for details of oak classification, in which acorn morphology and phenology are important factors.
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Etymology
The word (earlier "akerne", and "acharn") is related to the Gothic name "akran", which had the sense of "fruit of the unenclosed land". The word was applied to the most important forest produce, that of the oak. Chaucer spoke of "achornes of okes" in the 14th century. By degrees, popular etymology connected the word both with "corn" and "oak-horn", and the spelling changed accordingly.
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(E?)(L?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_forms_in_place_names_in_the_United_Kingdom_and_Ireland
List of generic forms in place names in the United Kingdom and Ireland
"ac", "acc", "ock", OE, "acorn", or "oak tre": "Accrington", "Acomb", "Acton", "Matlock"
(E?)(L?) http://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB/
Weitere Hinweise kann man im "Grimm" unter dem Stichwort "Ackeran" finden:
... wie "akrs" ursprünglich "weide" war, ist auch "akran" "frucht der weide", "ertrag der eiche und buche"; als "akrs" "gebautes feld" geworden war, gieng auch "akran" auf die "gesäte und geerntete frucht" über, gerade wie die benennung "glans" sich im verlauf der zeit auf "alle früchte" erstreckte. mit "eiche" "quercus", die goth. "aiks" lauten würde, hängt "akran", mit altn. "eik" "akarn" sichtbar nicht zusammen, auch dän. "agern" weicht von "eg", schw. "ollon" f. "okorn" von "ek", erst ags. "äcern" oder "æcern" könnte sich dem "âc" nähern. s. "eichel" und "eckern".
(E?)(L?) https://www.yourdictionary.com/
- acorn
- acorn barnacle
- acorn-cup
- acorn-nut
- acorn-shell
- acorn-shells
- acorn squash
- acorn-squashes
- acorn tube
- acorn woodpecker
- acorn-woodpeckers
- acorn worm
- acorned
- acornlike
- acorns
- ride-a-horse-foaled-by-an-acorn
- sea-acorn
- sea-acorns
(E1)(L1) http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?corpus=0&content=acorn
Abfrage im Google-Corpus mit 15Mio. eingescannter Bücher von 1500 bis heute.
Engl. "acorn" taucht in der Literatur um das Jahr 1610 / 1710 auf.
(E?)(L?) https://corpora.uni-leipzig.de/
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