harns

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”).

harns pl (plural only)

1. (now archaic, dialectal or rare) Brains.

• harnpan

• Rahns, shRNA, sharn, shrna

harns pl (plural only)

1. Alternative form of hernes
   • 1303, Robert Manning of Brunne, Handlyng synne:

     And of hys hede he brake þe bone / The harnes lay vppon þe stone.

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