burna

Cognate with Latvian pur̂ns (“snout”), Bulgarian бърна (bǎrna, “lip”). From Proto-Balto-Slavic *burˀnāˀ, often thought to be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to bore, pierce”), the “mouth” being perceived as a “hole, opening”. More distant cognates may include Armenian բերան (beran, “mouth”), Old Norse barki (“throat, windpipe”).

• IPA^(key): [bʊrˈnɐ]

burnà f (plural bùrnos) stress pattern 3

1. mouth

• “burna”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• Derksen, Rick (2015) “burna”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 106
• “burna”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

From Proto-West Germanic *brunnō (“stream, brook”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbur.nɑ/, [ˈburˠ.nɑ]

burna m

1. stream

• winterburna m

• burne f

• Middle English: burne, bourne
  • English: bourn, burn
  • Scots: burn

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

burna

1. inflection of buran:
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
   3. indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
   4. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural