tarn

Meanings

Plural: tarns

Noun

a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers)
A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
One of many small mountain lakes or ponds.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English terne, tarne (“lake; pond, pool”), from Old Norse tjǫrn (“a small lake without tributaries”), from Proto-Germanic *ternō (“water hole”), perhaps related to *turnaz (“bitter, embittered”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to separate, split; to crack, shatter”). The word is cognate with Danish tjern, Faroese tjørn (“pond”), Icelandic tjörn (“pond”), Norwegian Bokmål tjern (“small forest or mountain lake”) (Norwegian Nynorsk tjern, tjørn), Swedish tjärn (“small forest lake”).

Scrabble Score: 4

tarn is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
tarn is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tarn is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 5

tarn is a valid Words With Friends word