yarn

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ǵʰorn-
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*garną“yarn”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*garn
4. Old English · inherited fromġearn“yarn, spun wool”
5. Middle English · inherited fromyern
6. English todayyarn

From Middle English yern, yarn, from the Old English ġearn (“yarn, spun wool”), from Proto-West Germanic *garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną (“yarn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰerH- (“tharm, guts, intestines”). Cognates Akin to West Frisian jern, Dutch garen (“yarn”), German Garn (“yarn”), Danish garn, Swedish garn (“yarn, thread”), Icelandic garn (“yarn”), Latin hernia (“rupture”), Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string”), Sanskrit हिर (hira, “band”). Compare also the obsolete doublet garn.

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