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I'm not entirely sure. The root seems to have been rather weak, given that most of the words related to it in Germanic languages got lost too. Maybe there are some words that aren't recognisable anymore, but I don't know anything about Slavic etymology.
 
But how come that there is another usage of the word barn in English - with a completely different meaning?

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Two possibilities: The meaning of the word evolved in some way. For instance, you could say that the barn is a place where people carry stuff to. The other possibility is that this is a coincidence, and the word barn has an entirely different root.
 
The Proto Indo-European root seems to be *bherĝh-, "to hide, keep", also the root of German "bergen"and Old Church Slavic brěgǫ, brěšti 'care, worry' among others.
 
Went for a walk earlier today. The wind has obviously been strong during the night, because a big tree had fallen over and dragged down a lamp-post by the wires.
 
A literary analysis of a Persian epic. Throwing it against Hegel, Joseph Campbell and the likes, and see what happens.
 
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