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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *farn, from Proto-Indo-European *p(t)erH-. Cognate with Old High German farn (German Farn).
Pronunciation
Noun
fearn n
- fern
Declension
Strong a-stem:
Derived terms
Descendants
Yola
Noun
fearn
- 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