White Winter Wonderland
by Bruce Nutting
Title
White Winter Wonderland
Artist
Bruce Nutting
Medium
Painting - Digital
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The word barn comes from the Old English bere, for barley (or grain in general), and aern, for a storage place thus, a storehouse for barley. Another word for 'barn' in Old English was beretun, "barley enclosure" (from tun: 'enclosure,' 'house', or beretun (barton), also meaning a threshing floor. However, the common English name for a grain storage building now is granary.
Modern barns may include a stable, from Latin stabulum INstall, fold, aviary (literally "a standing place,"), byre (cow shed, from bower which is from Old English bur "room, hut, dwelling, chamber," from Proto-Germanic *buraz (cf. Old Norse bur "chamber," Swedish bur "cage," Old High German bur "dwelling, chamber," German Bauer "birdcage")..., or stall, ...place in a stable for animals," from Old English steall "place where cattle are kept, place, position," and Proto-Germanic *stallaz (cf. Old Norse stallr "pedestal for idols, altar," Old Frisian stal, Old High German stall "stand, place, stable, stall," German Stall "stable," Stelle "place".
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