fearn

See also: Fearn

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *farn, from Proto-Indo-European *p(t)erH-. Cognate with Old High German farn (German Farn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæ͜ɑrn/, [fæ͜ɑrˠn]

Noun

fearn n

1. fern

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	fearn	fearn
accusative	fearn	fearn
genitive	fearnes	fearna
dative	fearne	fearnum

Derived terms

• fearniġ

Descendants

• Middle English: fern, vern, fearn, farn, varn, firn
  • English: fern
  • Scots: farne, fairn
  • Yola: vearne, fearn

Yola

Noun

fearn

1. Alternative form of vearne

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 39