See Tarn

English

Etymology

From {{term|tjǫrn||a small mountain lake without tributaries|lang=non}}. Cognate with Norwegian {{term|tjern||small forest or mountain lake}}

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɑː(ɹ)n/,

Noun

Image:193.jpg|thumb|A tarn in the [[Lake District]]

1. A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
2. * 1839, w:Edgar Allan Poe|Edgar Allan Poe, w:The Fall of the House of Usher|The Fall of the House of Usher, w:Project Gutenberg|Project Gutenberg (1997), 1,
3. *: It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.

Translations

• Japanese: {{t-|ja|凹溜まり|sc=Jpan}}

• Spanish: {{t-|es|laguna|f}} (de montaña)

References

et:tarn ta:tarn vi:tarn zh:tarn