different between peach vs fern

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?ch, IPA^(key): /pi?t??/
• Rhymes: -i?t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin m?lum persicum, from Ancient Greek ????? ???????? (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”).

Noun

peach (plural peaches)

1. A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
3. The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
4. (color) A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.

5. (informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.

Synonyms

• (tree): peachtree

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Abenaki: biches (from the plural peaches)
• ? Arapaho: biisib (possibly)
• ? Bengali: ??? (pic) (probably)
• ? Malay: pic (probably)
• ? Maori: p?titi (possibly)
• ? Swahili: pichi (probably)
• ? Thai: ??? (píit)

Translations

Adjective

peach (comparative more peach, superlative most peach)

1. Of or pertaining to the color peach.
2. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

   Synonyms: agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, peachy, rosy

   Antonyms: disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasant

See also

• laetrile
• nectarine
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• Peach on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“to accuse”) and empechen (“to accuse”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedic? (“entangle”). See impeach.

Verb

peach (third-person singular simple present peaches, present participle peaching, simple past and past participle peached)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.

   Synonyms: sing, squeal, tattle; see also Thesaurus:rat out

   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 9:

     "But will your cousin tell?" was Ripton's reflection.

     "He!" Richard's lip expressed contempt. "A ploughman refuses to peach, and you ask if a Feverwl will?"
2. (transitive, obsolete) To inform against.

Derived terms

• peacher

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

peach (uncountable)

1. (mineralogy, obsolete, Cornwall) A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.

Derived terms

• blue peach
• green peach
• peach tourmaline

Anagrams

• Pecha, chape, chapé, cheap

English

Etymology

From Middle English ferne, from Old English fearn, from Proto-West Germanic *farn, from Proto-Indo-European *pornóm (“feather, wing; fern, leaf”), from *p(t)erH- (“fern”). Cognate with West Frisian fear, Dutch varen, German Farn, Lithuanian spar?nas, Avestan ????????????????????????? (par^?na), Kamkata-viri por, Sanskrit ???? (par?á).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Noun

fern (plural ferns)

1. Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.

Synonyms

• (Pteridophyta): Filicophyta (archaic)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• bracken

Further reading

• fern on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• fren, fren', nerf

German

Etymology

From Old High German ferrana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Adjective

fern (comparative ferner, superlative am fernsten)

1. remote
2. far away

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “fern” in Duden online
• “fern” in Duden online
• “fern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Icelandic

Etymology

From the root fer-. Compare tvennur, þrennur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?rtn/
• Rhymes: -?rtn

Adjective

fern

1. four (used when counting singular nouns, pluralia tantum or groupings (especially pairs) of items, or when the item counted is missing from the sentence or separated by the preposition af (“of”))

   fernir skór – four pairs of shoes

   fernir tónleikar – four concerts (tónleikar is plurale tantum)

   Þetta má gera á fernan hátt. – This can be done in four ways. (háttur cannot be used in its plural form in this sense)

   Það er fernt sem mig vantar. – There are four [things] that I need. (noun omitted)

   Ég vil fá fernt af öllu. – I want four of everything.

Inflection

Derived terms

• ferna

Related terms

• fer-
• fjórir
• tvennur
• þrennur

Middle English

Alternative forms

• vern, fearn, farn, varn, firn

Etymology

From Old English fearn, from Proto-West Germanic *farn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??rn/, /f?rn/

Noun

fern (plural ferns)

1. fern

Descendants

• English: fern
• Scots: farne, fairn
• Yola: fearn

References

• “f??rn, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wern? (compare Welsh gwern). Cognate with Old Armenian ????? (geran).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?er?n?/

Noun

fern f (genitive fernae, nominative plural ferna)

1. alder
2. shield (made of alder wood)
3. pole, stake
4. the letter F

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: fearn
  • ? Irish: fearnóg
• Manx: farney
• Scottish Gaelic: feàrna

Mutation

Old Saxon

Noun

fern m

1. Alternative form of infern