jarn

From Old Norse járn, jarn, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną, from Proto-Celtic *īsarno-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”).

• IPA^(key): /jatn/

jarn n (genitive singular jarns, plural jørn)

1. iron

• iarn (Föhr-Amrum)
• Aarn (Sylt)

From Old Frisian *ern, from Proto-Germanic *arô (“eagle”). Cognates include West Frisian earn.

jarn m (plural jarne)

1. (Mooring) eagle

   Synonym: oodler

• jern
• jønn (dialectal, Toten, Trøndersk)

From Old Norse jarn, járn. Akin to English iron.

• IPA^(key): /jɑrn/

jarn n (definite singular jarnet, indefinite plural jarn, definite plural jarna)

1. iron (the metallic element)
2. iron (a tool made of iron)

• “jarn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “jarn”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

From Old Norse járn, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną (“iron”).

jarn

1. iron

• Danish: jern

• “jarn” in Gammeldansk Ordbog

jarn n

1. alternative form of járn

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “jarn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive