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favn

“favn” is a Danish word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. arms, embrace
  2. unit of length
  3. armload

Etymology

From Old Danish fafn, from Old East Norse *famna-, *faþmna- (compare Swedish famn), derivatives of Old Danish fathm, Old Norse faðmr, from Proto-Germanic *faþmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pat-, *pet-.

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