isern

• īser, īsen

Inherited from Old High German īsarn, from Proto-West Germanic *īsarn, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈiːs̠ərn/

īsern n

1. iron

• Alemannic German: Iise

  Vorarlbergerisch: Iisa, Oasa

• Bavarian: Eisn

  Cimbrian: aizarn

  Mòcheno: aisn

• Central Franconian: Ieser, Iese, Eise
  • Hunsrik: Eise
  • Luxembourgish: Eisen
• German: Eisen, Eiser
• Vilamovian: ȧjza
• Yiddish: אײַזן (ayzn)

• Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

• īren, īsen

From Proto-West Germanic *īsarn, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː.sern/, [ˈiː.zerˠn]

īsern n (nominative plural īsern)

1. the metal iron
2. an instrument or tool made from iron, especially an iron sword
   • 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 5‎^[1]:

     Iċ eom ānhaga īserne wund, bille ġebennod, beadoweorca sæd, eċġum wēriġ.

     I am a lone one wounded with iron, wounded by sword, sated of battle-works, weary by edges.

3. an iron shackle or fetter

īsern

1. consisting or made of iron
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     ⁊ hæfdon ġeleornad mā cræfta hū hīe þā elpendas beswīcan mehton, mid þǣm þæt hīe nāmon trēowu, ⁊ slōgon on oþerne ende moniġe sċearpe īsene næġlas, ⁊ hīe mid flexe bewundon, ⁊ onbǣrndon hit, ⁊ beþyddan hit þonne on þone elpend hindan...

     And they had learned more tricks through which they could ensnare the elephants; they took stakes and drove into the other end many sharp iron nails, and wrapped them in flax, and set them on fire, and then thrust them into the elephant from behind...

• Middle English: iren, eren, irne, iron, isen
  • English: iron
    • → Marshallese: aen
  • Scots: airn, ern, irne
  • Yola: eeren

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĪSERN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĪSERN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[3], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• īrsen

From Proto-West Germanic *īsarn, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną.

īsern n

1. iron (metal)

• Saterland Frisian: Iersen
• West Frisian: izer

• Hofmann, Dietrich, Tjerk Popkema, Anne with co-op. Gisela Hofmann (2008) Altfriesisches Handwörterbuch [Old Frisian Concise Dictionary]‎^[4] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, →ISBN
• Köbler, Gerhard, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch (4th edition 2014)