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• Farm (obsolete)

From Middle High German varn, from Old High German farn, from Proto-West Germanic *farn, from Proto-Indo-European *pornóm (“feather, wing; fern, leaf”), from *p(t)erH- (“fern”).

Cognate with English fern, West Frisian fear, Dutch varen, Lithuanian spar̃nas, Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬀 (par^əna), Kamkata-viri por, Sanskrit पर्ण (parṇá).

• IPA^(key): /farn/, [faʁn], [faɐ̯n], [faːn]

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Farn m (strong, genitive Farnes or Farns, plural Farne)

1. fern

   Synonym: Farnkraut

• “Farn” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Farn”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Farn” in Duden online