awn

From Middle English aw(u)ne, agune, agene, from Old Danish aghn (compare modern Danish avne), from Proto-Germanic *aganō, *ahanō (“chaff”) (compare Old English ægnan, Dutch agen, German Ahne, Agen), from Proto-Indo-European *aḱanā (compare Latin agna (“ear of wheat”), Lithuanian ašnìs (“edge, blade”), Czech osina, Ancient Greek ἄκαινα (ákaina, “spike, prick”), ἄκανος (ákanos, “pine-thistle”), Sanskrit अशनि (aśáni, “thunderbolt, arrow tip”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). More at edge.

• IPA^(key): /ɔːn/
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

awn (plural awns)

An ear of a wild rye species, showing the conspicuous awns

1. The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.

• NWA, WAN, Wan, naw, wan, wan-

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.un/, /au̯n/

awn

1. inflection of mynet:
   1. first-person plural present indicative and imperative
   2. first-person singular imperfect indicative

• (first-person singular conditional): elwn

• IPA^(key): /au̯n/

awn

1. inflection of mynd:
   1. first-person plural present indicative/future
   2. first-person singular conditional
   3. (literary) first-person plural imperative