arna

arna

1. inflection of arnë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

Probably from a Paleo-Hispanic, from Proto-Celtic *arona (“ring” or “wheel”) due to the cylindrical shape around the trunk of a tree.

arna f (plural arnes)

1. bark, especially of the oak or chestnut tree
2. vessel made of bark

   Les tendelaes nos pueblos facíenles les muyeris en inḷḷiendo les arnes con ḷḷexía .

   In the villages, the women used to fill bark vessels with lye to hang the laundry.

3. bark shavings

   Dái-yos más de xintar a les vueses vaques ca paecin afamiaes comu les arnes l'añu pasáu.

   Give your cows more to eat because they look as hungry as last year's shavings.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈar.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈaɾ.na]

Probably from Proto-Celtic *arona (“ring” or “wheel”) due to these structures first being built in a cylindrical form from woven wood or vegetation.

arna f (plural arnes)

1. beehive

   Synonyms: buc, casera, rusc

2. synonym of arnot

• (beehive): apiari

• arnot

Unknown origin, but possibly cognate to Basque arr (“worm, insect”). Cognate to Occitan arna and Sardinian arna.

arna f (plural arnes)

1. moth

• arnar-se

• eruga (“caterpillar”)
• papallona (“butterfly”)

Possibly the same origin as Etymology 2 above, but also possibly by refactoring of sarna (“scabies”) as s’ + arna.

arna f (plural arnes)

1. (Mallorca) dandruff

   Synonym: caspa

• “arna”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “arna”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “arna” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “arna” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Uncertain. Probably from a Paleo-Hispanic, from *arona (“ring”, “wheel”, "rim"); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.^[1] Cognate with Asturian arna and Catalan arna

• IPA^(key): [ˈaɾnɐ]

arna f (plural arnas)

1. bark (the exterior covering of the trunk of a tree, especially when thick and old)

   Synonyms: arneca, arnela, casca, cortiza

2. a round, large section of bark

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “arna”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “arna”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “arna”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

arna

1. indefinite genitive plural of örn

From ar (“on, upon”) + a (“his, her, their”).

arna

1. only used in arna mhárach

arna

1. used with a verbal noun to indicate completion of an action and its direct object

   ‘upon his/its’ / ‘when he/it’ (triggers lenition): arna shailleadh ― upon its being salted, when it had been salted

   ‘upon her/its’ / ‘when she/it’ (triggers h-prothesis): arna hinsint ― upon its being told, when it had been told

   ‘upon their’ / ‘when they’ (triggers eclipsis): arna ndearbhú i gcruatan ― upon their being tested in hardship, when they were tested in hardship

2. used to form the equivalent of a past participle that agrees with a third-person subject

   masculine singular agreement triggers lenition: arna chur in eagar ag ― edited by (of something masculine)

   feminine singular agreement triggers h-prothesis: arna hoscailt ― (being) opened (of something feminine)

   plural agreement triggers eclipsis: arna bhfoilsiú ag ― published by (of something plural)

• arnár

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “arna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “arna”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “arna”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• arda, arla (Gascon)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with Catalan arna and Sardinian arna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈarno/

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arna f (plural arnas)

1. moth
2. (Attagenus pellio)^[1] fur beetle, carpet beetle

• [2]: cuca, darna, tenha

• IPA^(key): [ˈar͈n͈a]

Univerbation of ara (“so that”) +‎ ná (“not”)

arna (triggers /h/-prothesis)

1. so that … not, lest
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9^d24

     arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si

     lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil's machination and through your incontinence

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 126^a4

     arna té .i. féith forsna muire

     so that it may not go, i.e. a calm over the seas

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 203^a6

     arna derṅmis cum nobis; air dïa ndénmis cum me, do·génmis dano cum nobis

     that we might not make cum nobis; for if we made cum me, then we should make cum nobis

2. that … not (introduces a noun clause)

• arnach- (used before an infixed pronoun)

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 898; reprinted 2017

Univerbation of ar (“for (the sake of), because of”) +‎ inna (“the”, accusative plural)

arna (triggers /h/-prothesis)

1. for (the sake of) the (accusative plural), because of the (accusative plural)

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 823 C, page 498; reprinted 2017

arna

1. indefinite accusative/genitive plural of arinn
2. indefinite genitive plural of ǫrn

• arnia, arrana, arrina, arrala, arrentza, arrenza, rentza

Cognate with Catalan arna and Occitan arna.

arna m (plural arnas)

1. moth

   Synonyms: maniposa, babbaliscu, tacatia

• ruga f, mamaruga f

• àrna - Ditzionàriu in línia, Regione Autonoma della Sardegna
• Vocabolariu Sardu-Italianu et Italianu-Sardu, Canonigu Johanne Ispanu

• arnaf, arno

• IPA^(key): /ˈarna/

arna

1. (colloquial) first-person singular of am