{"id":22916,"date":"2023-06-07T16:02:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T16:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22916"},"modified":"2023-06-07T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T16:02:29","slug":"tarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22916","title":{"rendered":"Tarn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the north of England, particularly in Cumbria, the word <strong>tarn<\/strong> is used to refer to a small mountain lake. It is also apparently used in the USA, mainly in Montana, to refer to small mountain lakes or ponds.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/swalophoto\/6120826021\/in\/photolist-H1wGmj-2nqJXe9-qjBWQi-rhTQuX-ajSQk8-tJM5Jw-cpkcq-XJwhSs-2gykNRC-26NZPQY-25Msand-2ihEKiJ-7VSLy5-J3E76R-cKtc6d-2nqQiEW-25Ms8Sj-FZ8oAr-cpkjx-cpkeu-9oFupW-26NZRdN-9pmGX-9pmFC-9pmWH-m1199k-9zZ8wG-HdVuDV-qju1G5-doNWAK-doP18F-doP9kN-rAfPV-8WA3me-PfaBxJ-HdVjdp-26NZiH3-pEQbG8-2nqRpS4-2nqRpTS-3NGg5x-9zWay6-248bpTm-HdVLA4-26NZNi9-5EpvhG-6awY1m-RcuFu-5cnpoz-25MrTQw\" title=\"Little Langdale Tarn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/6209\/6120826021_86bdb26209_z.jpg\" alt=\"Little Langdale Tarn\" width=\"640\" height=\"226\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<em>Little Langdale Tarn<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tarn_(lake)\">Wikipedia<\/a>, \u201ca <strong>tarn<\/strong> or <strong>corrie loch<\/strong> is a mountain lake, pond or pool, formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tarn<\/strong> comes from the Middle English <em>terne\/tarne<\/em> (lake, pond, pool), from the Old Norse <em>tj\u01ebrn<\/em> (small lake, pond, pool), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*tern\u014d<\/em> (a mountain lake without tributaries, watering hole, small pool), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*der<\/em> (to split, separate, tear, crack, shatter) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tarn\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same Old Norse root include <strong>tj\u00f6rn<\/strong> (pond) in Icelandic, <strong>tj\u00f8rn<\/strong> (pond) in Faroese, <strong>tj\u00e4rn<\/strong> (small forest lake) in Swedish, and <strong>tjern<\/strong> (a small forest or mountain lake) in Danish and Norwegian [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tj%C7%ABrn#Old_Norse\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>English words from the same PIE root include <strong>(to) tear<\/strong>, <strong>derma<\/strong> (the inner layer of the skin), and <strong>dermic<\/strong> (of or relating to the dermis or skin) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Category:English_terms_derived_from_the_Proto-Indo-European_root_*der-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the same PIE root, via Proto-Celtic, include: <strong>darn<\/strong> (piece, fragment, patch, part) in Welsh, <strong>darn<\/strong> (fragment, part) in Breton, and possibly <strong>dr\u00e9acht<\/strong> (part, portion, draft) in Irish and <strong>dreuchd<\/strong> (job, occupation, role, function) in Scottish Gaelic [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/der-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the north of England, particularly in Cumbria, the word tarn is used to refer to a small mountain lake. It is also apparently used in the USA, mainly in Montana, to refer to small mountain lakes or ponds. Little Langdale Tarn According to Wikipedia, \u201ca tarn or corrie loch is a mountain lake, pond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,100,104,107,108,124,127,10,26,31,36,43,44,45,56,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-danish","category-english","category-etymology","category-faroese","category-icelandic","category-irish","category-language","category-middle-english","category-norwegian","category-old-norse","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22916"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22922,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916\/revisions\/22922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}