pernn.

Brit.

/pəːn/, U.S.

/pərn/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Pernis.

Etymology: < scientific Latin Pernis, genus name (Cuvier Règne animal (1817) I. 322) < ancient Greek πτέρνις a kind of hawk (Aristotle; in a 15th-cent. edition as πέρνης ), perhaps < πτέρνα heel (see pterna n.) + -ις (see -id suffix²).

A bird of the genus Pernis, a honey buzzard; spec. the western honey buzzard, P. apivorus, of Europe and northern Asia.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > pernis apivorus (honey-buzzard)

honey buzzard1673

bee-hawk1837

pern1840

honey kite1881

wasp-kite1891

1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 171 The Perns or Honey Buzzards. The Common Pern..pursues insects, and principally Bees and Wasps.

1879 Birmingham Weekly Post 21 June 5/2 The honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus)... The Pern, as it is sometimes called, does not feed on honey, but on the honey-makers, digging up bees' nests to get at the busy citizens.

1947 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xxxiii. 283 Other genera of the Falconidæ include in South Africa..three buzzards; two perns; five falcons.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pernv.

Brit.

/pəːn/, U.S.

/pərn/

Forms: 1900s– pern, 1900s– perne.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English pern , pirn n.¹

Etymology: < pern, variant of pirn n.¹; adopted by W. B. Yeats from Irish dialect use.Yeats uses pern as a noun in The Wild Swans at Coole (see quot. 1919 at pirn n.¹ 1a) but exclusively as a verb from 1920. He explains the initial reference in the following note:1919 W. B. Yeats Coll. Poems (1933) When I was a child at Sligo I could see above my grandfather's trees a little column of smoke from ‘the pern mill’, and was told that ‘pern’ was another name for the spool, as I was accustomed to call it, on which thread was wound. Yeats does not seem to have been aware of the existence in Scots usage of pirn n.¹ or pirn v., or he treated them as separate words, despite the obvious proximity in sense.

transitive and intransitive. In the poetry of W. B. Yeats, or with allusion to it: to spin, revolve; to move with a winding or spiral motion.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)]

haltc825

flecchec1300

waverc1315

flickerc1325

wag1387

swervea1400

floghter1521

stacker1526

to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530

wave1532

stagger1533

to hang in the wind1536

to waver as, like, with the wind1548

mammer1554

sway1563

dodge1568

erch1584

suspend1585

float1598

swag1608

hoverc1620

hesitate1623

vacillate1623

fluctuate1634

demur1641

balance1656

to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674

to stand shall I, shall I1674

to go shill-I shall-I1700

to stand at shilly-shally1700

to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734

whiffle1737

dilly-dally1740

to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751

oscillate1771

shilly-shally1782

dacker1817

librate1822

humdrum1825

swing1833

(to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848

to back and fill1854

haver1866

wobble1867

shaffle1873

dicker1879

to be on the weigh-scales1886

waffle1894

to think twice1898

to teeter on the brink1902

dither1908

vagulate1918

pern1920

1920 W. B. Yeats Michael Robartes & Dancer (1921) 17 Though I had long perned in the gyre, Between my hatred and desire, I saw my freedom won.

1927 W. B. Yeats Coll. Poems (1950) 217 O sages standing in God's holy fire... Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre.

1938 W. B. Yeats New Poems 34 Those new dead That come into my soul and escape Confusion of the bed, Or those begotten or unbegotten Perning in a band.

2000 New Republic (Nexis) 4 Dec. 39 Recurring shots of hawks perning in a gyre, or gobbling rodents, illustrate the Angevin family.

Derivatives

ˈperning n.

ΚΠ

1960 Y. Winters Poetry of W. B. Yeats 6 The cones rotate in opposite directions, and one of them is winding the thread of life from the other: this procedure is perning or gyring.

1998 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 38 694 Circularity verging on the terrifying perning into some destructive gyre emerges immediately.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pern
释义	pernn. Brit. /pəːn/, U.S. /pərn/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Pernis. Etymology: < scientific Latin Pernis, genus name (Cuvier Règne animal (1817) I. 322) < ancient Greek πτέρνις a kind of hawk (Aristotle; in a 15th-cent. edition as πέρνης ), perhaps < πτέρνα heel (see pterna n.) + -ις (see -id suffix²). A bird of the genus Pernis, a honey buzzard; spec. the western honey buzzard, P. apivorus, of Europe and northern Asia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > pernis apivorus (honey-buzzard) honey buzzard1673 bee-hawk1837 pern1840 honey kite1881 wasp-kite1891 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 171 The Perns or Honey Buzzards. The Common Pern..pursues insects, and principally Bees and Wasps. 1879 Birmingham Weekly Post 21 June 5/2 The honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus)... The Pern, as it is sometimes called, does not feed on honey, but on the honey-makers, digging up bees' nests to get at the busy citizens. 1947 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xxxiii. 283 Other genera of the Falconidæ include in South Africa..three buzzards; two perns; five falcons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pernv. Brit. /pəːn/, U.S. /pərn/ Forms: 1900s– pern, 1900s– perne. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English pern , pirn n.¹ Etymology: < pern, variant of pirn n.¹; adopted by W. B. Yeats from Irish dialect use.Yeats uses pern as a noun in The Wild Swans at Coole (see quot. 1919 at pirn n.¹ 1a) but exclusively as a verb from 1920. He explains the initial reference in the following note:1919 W. B. Yeats Coll. Poems (1933) When I was a child at Sligo I could see above my grandfather's trees a little column of smoke from ‘the pern mill’, and was told that ‘pern’ was another name for the spool, as I was accustomed to call it, on which thread was wound. Yeats does not seem to have been aware of the existence in Scots usage of pirn n.¹ or pirn v., or he treated them as separate words, despite the obvious proximity in sense. transitive and intransitive. In the poetry of W. B. Yeats, or with allusion to it: to spin, revolve; to move with a winding or spiral motion. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] haltc825 flecchec1300 waverc1315 flickerc1325 wag1387 swervea1400 floghter1521 stacker1526 to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530 wave1532 stagger1533 to hang in the wind1536 to waver as, like, with the wind1548 mammer1554 sway1563 dodge1568 erch1584 suspend1585 float1598 swag1608 hoverc1620 hesitate1623 vacillate1623 fluctuate1634 demur1641 balance1656 to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674 to stand shall I, shall I1674 to go shill-I shall-I1700 to stand at shilly-shally1700 to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734 whiffle1737 dilly-dally1740 to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751 oscillate1771 shilly-shally1782 dacker1817 librate1822 humdrum1825 swing1833 (to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848 to back and fill1854 haver1866 wobble1867 shaffle1873 dicker1879 to be on the weigh-scales1886 waffle1894 to think twice1898 to teeter on the brink1902 dither1908 vagulate1918 pern1920 1920 W. B. Yeats Michael Robartes & Dancer (1921) 17 Though I had long perned in the gyre, Between my hatred and desire, I saw my freedom won. 1927 W. B. Yeats Coll. Poems (1950) 217 O sages standing in God's holy fire... Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre. 1938 W. B. Yeats New Poems 34 Those new dead That come into my soul and escape Confusion of the bed, Or those begotten or unbegotten Perning in a band. 2000 New Republic (Nexis) 4 Dec. 39 Recurring shots of hawks perning in a gyre, or gobbling rodents, illustrate the Angevin family. Derivatives ˈperning n. ΚΠ 1960 Y. Winters Poetry of W. B. Yeats 6 The cones rotate in opposite directions, and one of them is winding the thread of life from the other: this procedure is perning or gyring. 1998 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 38 694 Circularity verging on the terrifying perning into some destructive gyre emerges immediately. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840v.1920
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