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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (with the horse-hoarse merger)
- (without the horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology 1
[edit]Middle French borne, from Old French bodne, from Medieval Latin bodina, a word of unknown ultimate origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also Proto-Celtic *bundos.[4]
Noun
[edit]bourne (countable and uncountable, plural bournes)
- (countable, archaic) A boundary; a limit.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 1:
- But that the dread of something after death, / The undiscover'd country from whose bourn[e] / No traveller returns
- 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes:
- […] and though I did not stop in my advance, yet I went on slowly, like a man who should have passed a bourne unnoticed, and strayed into the country of the dead.
- 1889, Alfred Tennyson, Crossing the Bar:
- For though from out our bourne of Time and Place,
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.
- (archaic) A goal or destination.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English bourne, from Old English burna. Doublet of burn.
Noun
[edit]bourne (plural bournes)
- (countable) A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.
Derived terms
[edit]- (seasonal stream): nailbourne, winterbourne
- (placenames): Middlebourne
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “bourne”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. (for "boundary; destination")
- ^ “bourne”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present. (for both "boundary" and "stream")
- ^ “bourne”, in Collins English Dictionary. (for both "boundary" and "stream")
- ^ Mann, S. E. (1963). Armenian and Indo-European: Historical Phonology. United Kingdom: Luzac, p. 73
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