A vocabulary of landscape — a landscape of words
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tarn
A small, deep mountain lake, especially one occupying the floor of a cirque or sitting in a glacially scoured basin above treeline. Clear, cold, and usually without a visible inlet or outlet.
Etymology
From Old Norse tjörn, meaning a small lake or pool without tributaries. The word entered northern English dialects through Viking settlement and was originally specific to the Lake District before spreading into general mountain vocabulary.