Garner

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Sounds like Ghana (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)

From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium (“granary”). Doublet of granary.

A granary; a store of grain. That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.
An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something. Master, I bring from many wanderings, The gathered garner of my years to thee; One precious fruit of many rain-blown springs And sun-shod summers, ripened over-sea.

transitive To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary. The rustic does not know what would happen to him if he garnered his corn on Sunday, nor does the diner-out in polite society know what would happen if he spooned up his food with his knife - but they both are stricken with a sort of paralysis at the very suggestion of infringing these taboos.
transitive To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain. […] I walked enormous distances[…] garnering thoughts even from the heather.
figuratively, often, transitive To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire (attitudes, reputations, or actions from others) by some effort or due to some fact To garner support
rare, transitive To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored. She soothed herself with the belief that the workings of her soul were still known to him,—that her regret and her despondency were but the needful preparation for that other sphere, where now her only remaining hope was garnered.