Note 321 — Chapter VI · THE PROTO-SIDERIC OR EARLY IRON AGE OF WEAPONS.

The word comes from the root which gave the Persian áhan; the Irish iaran or yarann; the Welsh hiarn; the Armorican uarn; the Gothic eisarn; the Danish iern; the Swedish iarn; the Cimbric jara; the German Eisen, and the Latin ferrum, with the neo-Latin ferro, hierro (Span.), &c. From iaran also we derive Harnisch, harness.