cairn

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kɛən/    美 /kɛ(ə)ɹn/|/keːn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
    — "Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn: / Why speak ye no word!"—said Glenara the stern.
  2. A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
    — After fifteen minutes of this we were glad to reach a high saddle on which former travellers had piled little cairns of commemoration and thankfulness.
  3. A cairn terrier.

词形变化

cairns plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cairned cairnless cairnlike cairn terrier Cairn Water Cairnwood cairny Clava cairn Tate's Cairn

词源

From Scots cairn, from Scottish Gaelic càrn, from Old Irish carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).
Compare Welsh carn, Cornish carn. Doublet of carn and horn.
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