Meaning

noun a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans

adjective in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line

adjective situated in or oriented toward the north

originFrom Middle English northerne, from Old English norþerne, from Proto-West Germanic *norþrōnī, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrōnijaz. Cognate with Old High German nordrōni and Old Norse norrœnn. Morphologically north + -ern.

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