Harns

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Brains. archaic, dialectal, plural, plural-only, rare

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brainbrain

Etymology

From Middle English hernes, from Old English hærnas (“brains”), plural of hærn (“brain”), from Proto-West Germanic *hirʀnī, from Proto-Germanic *hirzniją (“brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱérh₂sō (“head”), from *ḱerh₂s- (“head”).

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