Noun: acorn
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like acorn
syment,
cristened,
savete,
savyne,
sandal,
whelere,
scuage,
scluse,
sclise,
sclave,
schyft,
schuit,
schite,
schort,
schold,
schern,
smothe,
smethe,
smerte,
slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old English æcern, from Proto-West Germanic *akran, from Proto-Germanic *akraną.
2. The last element of this word is often remodelled on corn, while the variant ocorn in turn shows remodelling of the first element on ok (“oak”); this perhaps represents Northern influence, as forms such as acorn could there be interpreted as Northern Middle English ak (“oak”) + corn. Meanwhile, forms without /n/ might represent either simplification of /rn/ or reinterpretation of /n/ as the plural suffix -en. See: Old English Nouns '
æcern', Old English Nouns '
æcern'.
Verbs referencing "acorn"
English Nouns
acorn.
Translations