yarn
Етимологија
From Middle English yarne, ȝern, yarn, from the Old English ġearn (“yarn, spun wool”), from Proto-Germanic *garną (“yarn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰer- (“tharm, guts, intestines”). Akin to West Frisian jern, Холандски garen (“yarn”), Немачки Garn (“yarn”), Дански garn, Шведски garn (“yarn, thread”), Icelandic garn (“yarn”), Латински hernia (“rupture”), Антички Грчки χορδή (khordḗ, “string”), Санскрт हिर (hira, “band”). Compare also the obsolete doublet garn.
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- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yân, МФА(кључ): /jɑːn/
- (US) enPR: yârn, МФА(кључ): /jɑɹn/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Риме: -ɑː(r)n
===Noun
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yarn (countable and uncountable, plural yarns)
- (uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
- (nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
- (countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
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fiber strand for knitting or weaving
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nautical
story
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===Verb
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yarn
- To tell a story or stories.
- 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Thirteen, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 152,[1]
- “Well, well!” exclaimed Mr. van Hoorn. “Here are the boys! As hungry as hunters, I’ll be bound! And we two old fogies have been wasting the whole afternoon yarning away indoors. My goodness, is it as late as that? I say, I want my tea!”
- 1942, Neville Shute, Pied Piper, New York: William Morrow & Co., Chapter 7,[2]
- They had stayed in some little pension and had gone for little, bored walks while the colonel went out in the boats with the fisherman, or sat yarning with them in the café.
- 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Thirteen, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 152,[1]
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To tell a story
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Middle English
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yarn
- Alternative form of yarne
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