stearn

== Bavarian == === Etymology === From Middle High German stören, from Old High German stōren, from Proto-West Germanic *staurijan. Cognates include German stören and Dutch storen. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃd̥e̞ɐ̯n/ Hyphenation: stearn === Verb === stearn (past participle gsteart) to disturb, to interfere, to bother ==== Conjugation ==== == Old English == === Alternative forms === stærn === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *staraz, compare the modern starling. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /stæ͜ɑrn/, [stæ͜ɑrˠn] === Noun === stearn m some kind of bird ==== Usage notes ==== The identity of the stearn is not clear in the Old English corpus, although Bosworth-Toller notes that descendants in various British dialects refer to the starling, common tern, and sea tern, so the stearn may have referred to one of these animals. === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “stearn”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.