iron – English noun declension

English noun forms of iron

Noun: iron
Singulariron
Pluralirons

Sample Sentences

  • Today we studied about metals — including iron — at school.
  • They gather one by one, trickling into the shady courtyard, the familiar hum of Mass. Ave. wafting in from behind brick buildings and iron gates. [2005 June 9, Michael M. Grynbaum, “An Entryway That Eats Together Stays Together”, in The Harvard Crimson, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025:]
  • It's many niggas now totin' iron.
  • Ah, throw that old iron over here! We'll pick it up and go on our way. [1948, John Huston, Treasure of the Sierra Madre:]
  • the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip [1959, Marty Robbins, “Big Iron”:]
  • The brassey much resembled the driver, but the iron opened out quite a new field of practice; […] [1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:]
  • ironman; a will of iron
  • He appeared easygoing, but inside he was pure iron.
  • Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him, or give it up. This is not a game of cards — this is your life and mine! [1980 December 19, PAP election rally at Fullerton Square, spoken by Lee Kuan Yew:]
  • He lifts iron on the weekends.
  • I wanted Beauty, and what Nature had failed to supply, Iron would. [1986, Paul Reed, “Serenity”, in Eric E. Rofes, editor, Gay Life: Leisure, Love, and Living for the Contemporary Gay Male, page 10:]
  • Irons and stony irons can be much larger than stony meteorites and are much more visually striking, but make up only a few percent of all meteorites.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēsh₂r̥no-der.?
3. Proto-Celtic *īsarnombor.
4. Proto-Germanic *īsarną
5. Proto-West Germanic *īsarn
6. Old English īsern
7. Old English īren
8. Middle English iren
9. English iron
10. From Middle English iren, from Old English īsern, īsærn, īren, īsen, from Proto-West Germanic *īsarn, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną (“iron”), from Proto-Celtic *īsarnom (“iron”), possibly a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”).
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with Scots airn, ern (“iron”), Yola eeren (“iron”), Saterland Frisian Iersen (“iron”), West Frisian izer (“iron”), Bavarian Eisn (“iron”), Cimbrian aizarn (“iron”), Dutch ijzer (“iron”), German, Luxembourgish Eisen (“iron”), German Low German Isen (“iron”), Alemannic German Ise (“iron”), Limburgish iezer (“iron”), Mòcheno aisn (“iron”), Vilamovian ȧjza (“iron”), West Flemish yzer (“iron”), Yiddish אײַזן (ayzn, “iron”), Danish jern, jærn (“iron”), Faroese jarn (“iron”), Icelandic járn (“iron”), Jamtish járn, jáðn (“iron”), Norwegian Bokmål jern (“iron”), Norwegian Nynorsk jarn, jern, jønn (“iron”), Swedish jern, jaͤrn, järn (“iron”), Gothic 𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐍂𐌽 (eisarn, “iron”). See: Middle English Nouns 'iren', Dutch Nouns 'ijzer', Danish Nouns 'jern', Faroese Nouns 'jarn', Icelandic Nouns 'járn', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'jern', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'jarn', Gothic Nouns '𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐍂𐌽'.

Verbs referencing "iron"

German Nouns Eisen, Danish Nouns jern, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns jarn, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns jedn.