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tarn

Pronunciation: /tɑːn/

The English word “tarn” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
  2. One of many small mountain lakes or ponds.

Etymology

From Middle English terne, tarne (“lake; pond, pool”), from Old Norse tjǫrn (“a small lake without tributaries”), from Proto-Germanic *ternō (“water hole”), perhaps related to *turnaz (“bitter, embittered”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to separate, split; to crack, shatter”). The word is cognate with Danish tjern, Faroese tjørn (“pond”), Icelandic tjörn (“pond”), Norwegian Bokmål…

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