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BarnEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* Clipping of Barney. * Clipping of Barnett. * Clipping of Barnabas. * Clipping of Barnaby. * Clipping of Barnard.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗barnEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *raʀn, from Proto-Germanic *razną (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h₁rh̥₁-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”). More at rest and barley. For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗barnEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, offspring, progeny”) and Old Norse barn (“child”). Doublet of bairn. Cognate to West Frisian bern (“child, children”), Middle Dutch baren (“child”).
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Codex Ambrosianus A corpus record, Ephesians 2:3
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Gothic Bible word analysis — Ephesians 2:3, hatize and hatiswitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗Codex Ambrosianus B corpus record, Ephesians 2:3
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