yarn

• n.糸; 物語
• vt.毛糸で包む
• vi. 物語を語る

PIE*ghere, gut, gut threadから、語源的にはchord, cord, herniaと同じ。catgutと比較される。

yarn

yarn: [OE] Yarn comes from prehistoric Germanic *garn-, which also produced German, Swedish, and Danish garn and Dutch garen. This in turn went back to an Indo-European base whose other descendants include Greek khordé ‘string’ (source of English chord, cord). The sailors’ expression spin a yarn ‘tell a story’ led in the 19th century to the use of yarn for ‘story, tale’.
=> chord, cord

yarn (n.)

Old English gearn "spun fiber, spun wool," from Proto-Germanic *garnan (cognates: Old Norse, Old High German, German garn, Middle Dutch gaern, Dutch garen "yarn"), from PIE root *ghere- "intestine, gut, entrail" (cognates: Old Norse gorn "gut," Sanskrit hira "vein; entrails," Latin hernia "rupture," Greek khorde "intestine, gut-string," Lithuanian zarna "gut"). The phrase to spin a yarn "to tell a story" is first attested 1812, from a sailors' expression, on notion of telling stories while engaged in sedentary work such as yarn-twisting.

1. Craft Resources also sells yarn and embroidery floss.

技術者サービス会社も糸や刺繍糸を販売している。

2.His grandmother spun him a yarn at the fire.

彼のおばあさんはストーブのそばで物語を語ってくれた。

3.Don 't give me some cooked-up yarn ！

作り話を聞かないで！

4.I stopped to have a yarn with him.

私は立ち止まって彼と話をします。

5.Men yarn of the harbour 's famous pilots.

人々はよくこの港の有名なパイロットの話をしている。