different between garner vs barn

English

Etymology

From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin gr?n?rium (“granary”). Doublet of granary.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????.n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?????.n?/
• Homophone (non-rhotic accents only): Ghana
• Rhymes: -??(r)n?(r)

Noun

garner (plural garners)

1. A granary; a store of grain.

   • That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.

   • Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

2. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
   • a. 1912, Voltairine de Cleyre, Death Shall Not Part Ye More

     Master, I bring from many wanderings,
     The gathered garner of my years to thee;
     One precious fruit of many rain-blown springs
     And sun-shod summers, ripened over-sea.

Translations

Verb

garner (third-person singular simple present garners, present participle garnering, simple past and past participle garnered) (transitive)

1. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
2. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
   • 1835, Honoré de Balzac, The Lily of the Valley, Chapter 2

     I walked enormous distances...garnering thoughts even from the heather.

   • 1913, “Anton Berlage” in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913

     He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.

   • 1956, Andrew North, Plague Ship, Chapter 14

     ...its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.

3. (often figuratively) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact

   Synonyms: reap, gain

   He garnered a reputation as a language expert.

   Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.

   His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.

   • 1983, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5031

     This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.

   • 1999, Bill Clinton, Proclamation 7259

     President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women...

4. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
   • 1849, Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., verse 82

     For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;

Usage notes

The "earn, acquire, accumulate" sense should be read as a figurative extension of the original "harvest, gather" sense, sometimes with some inanimate achievement or choice metaphorically doing the "gathering", as "The new book garnered high praise", or with an indirect object, as, "The new book garnered the author high praise". In this sense, the achievement, choice, or fact is actively gathering something, positive or negative, for its creator, even if that choice is inaction, as in "Failure to try can garner you the disapproval of the industrious".

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:garner.

Translations

Anagrams

• Garren, Graner, Ranger, ranger

Danish

Noun

garner n

1. indefinite plural of garn

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

garner

1. imperative of garnere

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: bärn, IPA^(key): /b??n/
  • (General Australian, Boston) IPA^(key): [ba?n]
  • (NYC) IPA^(key): [b??n]
  • (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [b??n]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [b??n]
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [b??n]
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Etymology 1

From Middle English bern, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *ra?n, from Proto-Germanic *razn? (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h?rh??-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erh?- (“to rest”).

More at rest and barley.

For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.

Noun

barn (plural barns)

1. (agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
2. (nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10^?28 square metres.
3. (informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena.

Derived terms

See also

• Besses o' th' Barn

Translations

Verb

barn (third-person singular simple present barns, present participle barning, simple past and past participle barned)

1. (transitive) To lay up in a barn.

Etymology 2

From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, offspring, prodigy”) and Old Norse barn (“child”). Doublet of bairn. Cognate in Frisian: bern (child/children).

Noun

barn (plural barns)

1. (dialect, parts of Northern England) A child.

Synonyms

• (child): bairn

Translations

References

• barn at OneLook Dictionary Search
• barn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Bran, NRAB, bran

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *barnati (“proclaim”). Cognate with Cornish barna.

Verb

barn

1. (transitive) to judge

Inflection

Conjugation

Derived terms

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish, Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barn?. Compare English bairn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b???n]

Noun

barn n (singular definite barnet, plural indefinite børn)

1. child (immature human)

   Dette er ikke et passende sted for børn.

   This is not a fitting place for children.

2. child (human offspring)

   Mine børn er alle flyttet hjemmefra.

   My children have all moved out.

Usage notes

In compounds: barn-, barne-, barns- or børne-.

Declension

Derived terms

References

• “barn” in Den Danske Ordbog

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?, the passive participle of *beran?; cognate with Latvian b?rns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“servant”); from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?patn]
• Rhymes: -atn

Noun

barn n (genitive singular barns, plural børn)

1. child

Declension

French

Noun

barn m (plural barns)

1. (physics) barn (unit)

Gothic

Romanization

barn

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?partn?], IPA^(key): [?patn?] (colloquial), IPA^(key): [?parn] (Southeast dialect)
• Rhymes: -artn, -atn

Noun

barn n (genitive singular barns, nominative plural börn)

1. child

Declension

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English barn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?barn/

Noun

barn m (invariable)

1. (nuclear physics) barn (unit of surface area)

References

• barn in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?.

Alternative forms

• bern, bearn, bærn, barne, berne, baren

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barn/, /ba?rn/, /b?rn/

Noun

barn (plural barnes or barnen)

2. A member of one's immediate offspring or progeny.
3. A child, youth, or baby
4. A person; a member of humanity
5. A younger soldier or fighter

Related terms

• barneschen
• barnhede
• barnles
• barntem
• stepbarn

Descendants

• Scots: bairn
  • ? English: bairn
• English: barn (obsolete, dialectal)
  • Northumbrian: bairn

References

• “b??rn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Etymology 2

From Old English bereærn.

Noun

barn

2. Alternative form of bern (“barn”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barn? (“child”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (“to bear, carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???/

Noun

barn n (definite singular barnet, indefinite plural barn, definite plural barna or barnene)

1. a child

Derived terms

References

• “barn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn? (“child”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *b?er- (“to bear, carry”). The plural form born is from the Old Norse u-umlauted form b?rn. This um-laut can also be seen in Icelandic börn and Danish and Faroese børn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??rn/ (examples of pronunciation)

Noun

barn n (definite singular barnet, indefinite plural barn or born, definite plural barna or borna)

1. a child

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

• bera (“to bear, carry”, verb)

References

• “barn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?.

Noun

barn n (genitive barns, plural børn)

1. child

Descendants

• Danish: barn

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *barn?, the passive participle of *beran?; cognate with Latvian b?rns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“servant”); from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-.

Noun

barn n (genitive barns, plural b?rn)

1. child

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: barn
• Faroese: barn
• Norwegian Bokmål: barn
• Old Swedish: barn
  • Swedish: barn
• Old Danish: barn
  • Danish: barn
• Gutnish: ban

References

• barn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?, whence also Old English bearn, Old High German barn, Swedish barn.

Noun

barn n

1. child

Declension

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?.

Noun

barn n

1. child

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: barn

Polish

Noun

barn m inan

1. barn (unit)

Declension

Further reading

• barn in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish barn (“child”), from Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barn?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-. Cognate with Danish barn, Icelandic barn, Old Saxon barn, Old High German barn, Latvian b?rns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“worker”) and bern?lis (“lad”), a kind of participle to bära (“to bear, to carry, as in childbirth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??rn/, [b???]

Noun

barn n

1. a child (a young person)
2. (someone's) child, offspring (a son or daughter)
3. a descendant (e.g. children of Abraham)
4. a follower (e.g. God's children)
5. (someone's) creation, invention
6. (uncountable) barn; a unit of area in nuclear physics

Declension

Synonyms

• unge

Related terms

See also

• pojke
• flicka

References

• barn in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• barn in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *barnati from Proto-Indo-European *g?erH-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barn/

Noun

barn f (plural barnau)

1. opinion, view
2. judgement, sentence

Derived terms

• barnu (“to adjudge; to pass sentence”)

Mutation