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-ern

-ern

an adjective suffix occurring with names of directions: northern; southern.

Origin:
Middle English, Old English -erne; cognate with Old High German -rōni (as in nordrōni northern)
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-ern is always a great word to know.
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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