Farn

Concepts

fern

bracken

ferns

brake

lygodium

salviniales

fern with white-backed leaves

sorbus japonica

azollaceae

Synonyms

Farnkraut

Gebüsch

Unterholz

Gleichenie

Azollaceae

Lygodium

Salviniales

Dickicht

Farnpflanze

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

faare

Basel-Landschaft

faaregrut

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/farn/

Etymology

From Middle High German farn, 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).