# garn
## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

garn (uncountable)
* (obsolete) yarn (twisted fibers for weaving)

### Etymology 2

From go on.

#### Interjection

garn
* (Cockney slang) A response that expresses disbelief or mockery.
** 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 125:mrs pearce. […] But you dont know anything about her. What about her parents? She may be married. / liza. Garn! / higgins. There! As the girl very properly says, Garn! Married indeed! Dont you know that a woman of that class looks a worn out drudge of fifty a year after shes married?

### Anagrams

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

## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡarn/, [ɡ̊ɑːˀn]

### Noun

garn n (singular definite garnet, plural indefinite garner or garn)
* garn, yarn
* thread (long, thin and flexible form of material)

#### Inflection
### Noun

garn n (singular definite garnet, plural indefinite garner or garn)
* twine (strong thread)
* net (used for catching fish)

#### See also

* garn on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## East Central German
### Etymology

Compare German gerne.

### Adverb

garn
* (Erzgebirgisch) gladly
* (Erzgebirgisch) willingly
* (Erzgebirgisch) be likely to

### References

* 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:

## Icelandic
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kartn/
* Rhymes: -artn
* Rhymes: -atn

### Noun

garn n (genitive singular garns, no plural)
* yarn

#### Declension
## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* garne

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡarn/

### Noun

garn (uncountable)
* Yarn; a length of fibre used to weave.
    Synonym: yarn

#### Descendants

* English: garn (obsolete)

#### References

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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɑːɳ/
* Rhymes: -ɑːɳ

### Noun

garn n (definite singular garnet, indefinite plural garn, definite plural garna or garnene)
* (uncountable) yarn (spun thread)
* a net (fishing)

### References

* “garn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡarn/, /ɡaʁn/

### Noun

garn n (definite singular garnet, indefinite plural garn, definite plural garna)
* (uncountable) yarn (spun thread)
* a net (fishing)

### References

* “garn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old High German
### Etymology

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

### Noun

garn n
* yarn

#### Descendants

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

## Pennsylvania German
### Etymology

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

### Adverb

garn
* gladly
* willingly
* be likely to

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

garn n
* yarn; a twisted strand of fiber used for e.g. knitting

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | garn | garns |
| singular | definite | garnet | garnets |
| plural | indefinite | garner | garners |
| plural | definite | garnerna | garnernas |

### Noun

garn n
* a fishing net
    Synonym: fisknät
    snärja någon i sitt garnensnare someone in one's net (figurative, idiomatic)

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | garn | garns |
| singular | definite | garnet | garnets |
| plural | indefinite | garn | garns |
| plural | definite | garnen | garnens |

#### Related terms

* bomullsgarn
* garnnystan
* kamgarn
* nylongarn
* redgarn
* ullgarn

### References

* garn in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* garn in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* garn in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* gran, rang