járn

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

• IPA^(key): /jaurtn/, /jautn/

  Rhymes: -autn

járn n (genitive singular járns, nominative plural járn)

1. iron

• stál

• jáðn

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

• (Hammerdal, Ström) IPA^(key): [¹jaːn̪]
• (Berg, Klövsjö, Rätan) IPA^(key): [¹jaːn̠]
• (Most dialects) IPA^(key): [¹jæːn̪], [¹jæːn̠]

járn n

1. iron

• ísarn, jarn, éarn

From Proto-Germanic *īsarną, from Proto-Celtic *īsarnom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”). Cognate with Old English īsern and Old High German isarn.

járn n

1. iron

• Icelandic: járn
• Faroese: jarn
• Norwegian Nynorsk: jarn
• Jamtish: járn
• Elfdalian: ienn
• Old Swedish: iærn, iarn
  • Swedish: järn
• Old Danish: jarn, iærn, iarn
  • Danish: jern, jærn
    • Norwegian Bokmål: jern
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: jern (partially from dialects with j-umlaut)
  • Scanian: jærn
• Gutnish: jan

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic‎^[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press