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 [REF].
Modern barns may include a stable, from Latin stabulum 'stall, fold, aviary' (literally "a standing place,"),[REF] byre ('cow shed', from bower which is from Old English bur- "room, hut, dwelling, chamber," from Proto-Germanic *buraz (cf.