garn

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n

From Middle English garne, from Old English ġearn. Compare also Danish and Old Norse garn.

garn (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) yarn (twisted fibers for weaving)

From go on.

garn

1. (Cockney slang) A response that expresses disbelief or mockery.
   • 1912, George Bernard Shaw, “Act II”, in Pygmalion‎:

     Mrs Pearce: […] She may be married.
     Liza: Garn!

• ARNG, Gran, NARG, gRNA, gnar, gran, grna, narg, rang

From Old Norse garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰer- (“gut, intestine”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡarn/, [ɡ̊ɑːˀn]

garn n (singular definite garnet, plural indefinite garner or garn)

1. garn, yarn
2. thread (long, thin and flexible form of material)
3. twine (strong thread)
4. net (used for catching fish)

Yarn, thread:

Net, twine:

• garn on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

From Old Norse garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰer- (“gut, intestine”).

• IPA^(key): /kartn/
• Rhymes: -artn
• Rhymes: -atn

garn n (genitive singular garns, no plural)

1. yarn

• garne

Borrowed from Old Norse garn, both from Proto-Germanic *garną. Doublet of yarn.

• IPA^(key): /ɡarn/

garn (uncountable)

1. Yarn; a length of fibre used to weave.

   Synonym: yarn

• English: garn (obsolete)

• “garn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-05.

From Old Norse garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰer- (“gut, intestine”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːɳ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɳ

garn n (definite singular garnet, indefinite plural garn, definite plural garna or garnene)

1. (uncountable) yarn (spun thread)
2. a net (fishing)

• “garn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰer- (“gut, intestine”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡarn/, /ɡaʁn/

garn n (definite singular garnet, indefinite plural garn, definite plural garna)

1. (uncountable) yarn (spun thread)
2. a net (fishing)

• “garn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *garną, whence also Old English ġearn, Old Norse garn. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰer- (“gut, intestine”).

garn n

1. yarn

• Middle High German: garn
  • Cimbrian: gaarn, ghèrn
  • German: Garn
  • Luxembourgish: Gar

Compare German gern and gerne, Dutch gaarne. These words are ultimately related to yearn in English.

garn

1. gladly
2. willingly
3. be likely to

From Old Norse garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰer- (“gut, intestine”).

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garn n

1. yarn; a twisted strand of fiber used for e.g. knitting

• bomullsgarn
• garnnystan
• kamgarn
• nylongarn
• redgarn
• ullgarn

• gran, rang