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gurn

gurn

English

Alternative forms

Noun

gurn (plural gurns)

  1. (Britain) A distorted facial expression.

Translations

Verb

gurn (third-person singular simple present gurns, present participle gurning, simple past and past participle gurned)

  1. (Britain) to make a grotesque or funny face.

Anagrams


Manx

Verb

gurn (verbal noun gurneil)

  1. to direct, govern

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gurn ghurn ngurn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Woiwurrung

Noun

gurn

  1. the front section of neck

References

  • Barry J. Blake, Woiwurrung, in The Aboriginal Language of Melbourne and Other Sketches (1991; edited by R. M. W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake; OUP, Handbook of Australian Languages 4), pages 31–124