Words that come from Proto-Germanic “gernaz”

54 words across 20 languages descend from Proto-Germanic gernaz — including yearning, yearn, yearningly, yearneth, yearnest, yearner, yern, yearny.

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English (11)

Old Saxon (5)

Old English (4)

Proto-West Germanic (4)

Middle Dutch (3)

Dutch (3)

Proto-Germanic (3)

Westrobothnian (2)

Old High German (2)

Old Dutch (2)

Old Norse (2)

Finnish (2)

German (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Middle English (2)

Danish (1)

Icelandic (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Swedish (1)

Middle High German (1)