Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAny 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. · A light green color inspired by the color of ferns.
From Middle English fern, from Old English fearn, from Proto-West Germanic *farn, from Proto-Germanic *farnaz (“fern”), from Proto-Indo-European *pornóm (“feather, wing; fern, leaf”), from *p(t)erH- (“fern”). Cognates Cognate with Scots fairn (“fern”), North Frisian farne (“fern”), West Frisian fear (“fern”), Dutch varen (“fern”), German Farn, Farm (“fern”), Luxembourgish Far (“fern”); also Breton raden (“fern”), Cornish reden (“ferns; brackens”), Welsh rhedyn (“ferns; brackens”), Latvian paparde (“fern; bracken”), spārns (“wing”), Lithuanian spar̃nas (“wing”), Bulgarian and Macedonian папрат (paprat, “fern”), Czech kapraď (“fern”), Polish paproć (“fern”), Russian па́пороть (páporotʹ), па́поротник (páporotnik, “fern”), Serbo-Croatian па̏пра̄т, pȁprāt (“fern”), Slovak papraď (“fern”), Slovene praprot (“fern”), Ukrainian па́пороть (páporotʹ, “fern”), Central Kurdish پەڕ (perr, “feather”), Persian پر (par, “feather; wing; leaf”), Ashkun pār (“leaf”), Kamkata-viri por, přor (“leaf”), Prasuni parëg (“leaf”), Sanskrit पर्ण (parṇá, “wing; leaf”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionfernenm
- Inherited-form mentionfearnang
- Inherited-form mention*farngmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*farnazgem-pro · fern
- Inherited-form mention*pornómine-pro · feather, wing; fern, leaf
- Cognate mentionfairnsco · fern
- Cognate mentionfarnefrr · fern
- Cognate mentionfearfy · fern
- Cognate mentionvarennl · fern
- Cognate mentionFarnde
- Cognate mentionFarlb · fern
- Cognate mentionradenbr · fern
- Cognate mentionredenkw · ferns; brackens
- Cognate mentionrhedyncy · ferns; brackens
- Cognate mentionpapardelv · fern; bracken
- Cognate mentionspar̃naslt · wing
- Cognate mentionkapraďcs · fern
- Cognate mentionpaproćpl · fern
- Cognate mentionпа́поротьru
- Cognate mentionпа̏пра̄тsh
- Cognate mentionpapraďsk · fern
- Cognate mentionpraprotsl · fern
- Cognate mentionпа́поротьuk · fern
- Cognate mentionپەڕckb · feather
- Cognate mentionپرfa · feather; wing; leaf
- Cognate mentionpārask · leaf
- Cognate mentionporbsh
- Cognate mentionparëgprn · leaf
- Cognate mentionपर्णsa · wing; leaf
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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"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.",
"A light green color inspired by the color of ferns."
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