different between garn vs carn

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English garne, from Old English ?earn. Compare also Danish and Old Norse garn.

Noun

garn (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) yarn (twisted fibers for weaving)

Etymology 2

From go on.

Interjection

garn

1. (Cockney slang) A response that expresses disbelief or mockery.
   • 1912, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion:

     Mrs Pearce: […] She may be married.

     Liza: Garn!

Anagrams

• ARNG, NARG, gRNA, gnar, gran, grna, narg, rang

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse garn, from Proto-Germanic *garn?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *??orn-, *??er- (“gut, intestine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?arn/, [?????n]

Noun

garn n (singular definite garnet, plural indefinite garner or garn)

1. garn, yarn
2. thread (long, thin and flexible form of material)
3. twine (strong thread)
4. net (used for catching fish)

Inflection

Yarn, thread:

Net, twine:

See also

• garn on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse garn, from Proto-Germanic *garn?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *??orn-, *??er- (“gut, intestine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kartn/
• Rhymes: -artn
• Rhymes: -atn

Noun

garn n (genitive singular garns, no plural)

1. yarn

Declension

Middle English

Noun

garn

1. Alternative form of garne

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse garn, from Proto-Germanic *garn?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *??orn-, *??er- (“gut, intestine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

garn n (definite singular garnet, indefinite plural garn, definite plural garna or garnene)

1. (uncountable) yarn (spun thread)
2. a net (fishing)

References

• “garn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse garn, from Proto-Germanic *garn?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *??orn-, *??er- (“gut, intestine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?arn/, /?a?n/ (examples of pronunciation)

Noun

garn n (definite singular garnet, indefinite plural garn, definite plural garna)

1. (uncountable) yarn (spun thread)
2. a net (fishing)

References

• “garn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *garn?, whence also Old English ?earn, Old Norse garn. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *??orn-, *??er- (“gut, intestine”).

Noun

garn n

1. 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

1. gladly
2. willingly
3. be likely to

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse garn, from Proto-Germanic *garn?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *??orn-, *??er- (“gut, intestine”).

Pronunciation

Noun

garn n

1. yarn; a twisted strand of fiber used for e.g. knitting

Declension

Related terms

• bomullsgarn
• garnnystan
• kamgarn
• nylongarn
• redgarn
• ullgarn

Anagrams

• gran, rang

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??n/

Etymology 1

Noun

carn (plural carns)

1. Archaic form of cairn.

See also

• Carn Brea

Etymology 2

Adapted from the vernacular pronunciation of c'mon, itself an informal variant of come on. The first uses of the term in its extended sense appear to have been amongst Australian rules football fans in Victoria, with the use later spreading to other states and sports.

Interjection

carn

1. (Australia, informal) Come on.
   • 2008, Tim Winton, Breath, Picador UK Paperback edition 2008, Ch.3, p.52:

     Slipper hooted. But in a moment another wedging peak was upon us.
     "Carn, kid. No guts, no glory."
     "I don't think so," I said.
     "It's the only way home now."

2. (Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (football) team.
   • 1956 September 10, "Carn the Magpies!", The Argus
   • 2001 March 26, "Rabbitohs win hearts and minds of the disaffected", The Sydney Morning Herald

     Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.

   • 2004 February 12, "Keeping sport local on our ABC", The Age

     Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn, they cry, carn … feebly at first."

   • 2011 October 11, "Carn the Four'n Twenty, says Preston", Herald Sun

Anagrams

• Cran, NRCA, cRNA, cran, cran-, crna, narc

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan carn, from Latin car?, carnem, from Proto-Italic *kar?, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *(s)ker-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka?n/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?karn/

Noun

carn f (uncountable)

1. meat
2. flesh

Derived terms

• cansalada
• carnisser
• carnós
• carnut

Related terms

• carnal
• carnaval
• carnestoltes
• carnívor

Further reading

• “carn” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “carn” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “carn” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “carn” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“horn”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /k????n??/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ka???n??/

Noun

carn m (genitive singular cairn, nominative plural cairn)

1. heap, pile
2. cairn

Declension

Derived terms

• carn consan

Mutation

Further reading

• “carn” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “carn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “carn” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 119.
• "carn" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• charn (Limousin)

Etymology

From Old Occitan carn, from Latin car?, carnem.

Noun

carn f (plural carns)

1. flesh
2. meat

Old French

Noun

carn f (oblique plural carns, nominative singular carn, nominative plural carns)

1. (early Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of char (flesh)

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• charn

Etymology

From Latin car?, carnem.

Noun

carn f

1. flesh

Descendants

• Catalan: carn
• Occitan: carn

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kar?/

Noun

carn m

1. flesh
2. meat

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) charn
• (Sutsilvan) tgarn
• (Surmiran) tgern

Etymology

From Latin car?, carnem.

Noun

carn f (plural carns)

1. (Sursilvan) meat

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“horn”).

Noun

carn f (plural carnau)

1. cairn, barrow

Derived terms

• carnedd (“cairn”)

Noun

carn m (plural carnau)

1. hoof
2. handle, haft

Derived terms

• carnol (“hoofed”)

Mutation