Erne meaning

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A sea eagle, especially Haliaeetus albicilla of Europe.
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A sea eagle; esp., the European white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) which lives near the sea, lakes, or rivers.
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(chiefly poetic, dialectal, sciences) An eagle.

The bald earn.

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An eagle with a distinctive white tail; specifically, the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla).
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Origin of erne

  • Middle English ern eagle from Old English earn or- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English ern, erne, earn, from Old English earn (“eagle”), from Proto-Germanic *arô (“eagle”), from Proto-Indo-European *or- (“large bird, eagle”). Cognate with Dutch and Low German arend (“eagle”), Danish ørn (“eagle”), Swedish örn (“eagle”), German Aar (“eagle”), Ancient Greek ὄρνεον (orneon), ὄρνις (órneon, órnis, “bird”).

    From Wiktionary

Erne Sentence Examples

  • It passes Belturbet, the Loughs Erne, Enniskillen and Belleek, on its way to the Atlantic, into which it descends at Bailyshannon.

  • Trout are taken in most of the loughs, and pike of great size in the Loughs Erne.

  • Garrison, a fishing station on the wild Lough Melvin, and Pettigo, near to the lower Lough Erne, are market villages.

  • The county is situated mostly in the basin of the Erne, which divides the county into two nearly equal sections.

  • Its surface is hilly, and its appearance (in many parts) somewhat sterile, though in the main, and especially in the neighbourhood of Lough Erne, it is picturesque and attractive.

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