pirn

• pern

Perhaps from prin (“twig, shoot”), variant of prene (“spike, nail”), from Old English preon, from Proto-Germanic *preunaz (“knitting needle”).

• IPA^(key): /pɜː(ɹ)n/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n

pirn (plural pirns)

1. A cone-shaped spool or bobbin on which thread or yarn is wound, used most often for weaving.
2. The amount of thread wound on a shuttle or reel.

pirn (third-person singular simple present pirns, present participle pirning, simple past and past participle pirned)

1. (transitive) To wind (yarn) onto a pirn, usually by means of a pirn winder.

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “prin”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• prin

From German Birne.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpirn/, [ˈpirn]
• Rhymes: -irn
• Hyphenation: pirn

pirn (genitive pirni, partitive pirni)

1. (botany) pear (fruit or tree)
2. light bulb
3. (colloquial) a bad surprise, unexpected unpleasantness

Declension of pirn (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		pirn	pirnid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	pirni
genitive			pirnide
partitive		pirni	pirne pirnisid
illative		pirni pirnisse	pirnidesse pirnesse
inessive		pirnis	pirnides pirnes
elative		pirnist	pirnidest pirnest
allative		pirnile	pirnidele pirnele
adessive		pirnil	pirnidel pirnel
ablative		pirnilt	pirnidelt pirnelt
translative		pirniks	pirnideks pirneks
terminative		pirnini	pirnideni
essive		pirnina	pirnidena
abessive		pirnita	pirnideta
comitative		pirniga	pirnidega

• pirn in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “pirn”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009