farn

See also: Farn

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *farn. Compare Old English fearn and Old Saxon farn.

Noun

farn n

1. fern

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: varen
  • Dutch: varen
    • Afrikaans: varing

References

• “farn”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Alternative forms

• faran, faram

Etymology

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

Noun

farn m

1. fern

Descendants

• Middle High German: varn, varm, farn, farm
  • German: Farn, Farm
  • Luxembourgish: Far

Old Saxon

Etymology

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

Noun

farn m

1. fern

Descendants

• Middle Low German: varn, varne, varen
  • German Low German: Farn

Plautdietsch

Adjective

farn

1. smart, intelligent

Tarifit

Etymology

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Verb

farn (Tifinagh spelling ⴼⴰⵔⵏ)

1. (transitive) to sort
2. (transitive) to select
3. (transitive) to peel, to prune, to clean, to remove impurities (from plants)
4. (transitive) to delouse

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• Verbal noun: afran (“sorting, selecting”)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /varn/

Noun

farn

1. Soft mutation of barn (“opinion”).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
barn	farn	marn	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.