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quern

Meaninga handmill

Common meaning: a hand mill

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√GAR‘grind, orig’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 94, p. 733 · scan
  2. Old EnglishcweornsourceB&T
  3. Middle Englishquernesource
  4. Englishquern‘a hand mill’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old English cweorn ‘a handmill’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry QUERN, p. 484 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • cweorn Old English “a handmill”

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