different between corn vs quern

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??n/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /k??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Etymology 1

From Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-Germanic *kurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *?erh?- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Norwegian Bokmål korn, Norwegian Nynorsk korn and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian ?????? (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin gr?num, Lithuanian žirnis and English grain.

In sense 'maize' a shortening from earlier Indian corn.

Noun

corn (usually uncountable, plural corns)

1. (Britain, uncountable) The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
2. (US, Canada, Australia, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
3. A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.

4. A small, hard particle.
5. (MLE, slang, uncountable) bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: kon
• ? Maori: k?nga

Translations

See also

Verb

corn (third-person singular simple present corns, present participle corning, simple past and past participle corned)

1. (US, Canada) to granulate; to form a substance into grains

2. (US, Canada) to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
3. (US, Canada) to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed

4. (transitive) to render intoxicated

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English corne, from Old French corn (modern French cor), from Latin cornu.

Noun

corn (plural corns)

1. A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.

   Synonym: clavus

Hyponyms

• callus

Translations

Etymology 3

This use was first used in 1932, as corny, something appealing to country folk.

Noun

corn (uncountable)

1. (US, Canada) Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
   • 1975, Tschirlie, Backpacker magazine,

     He had a sharp wit, true enough, but also a good, healthy mountaineer's love of pure corn, the slapstick stuff, the in-jokes that get funnier with every repetition and never amuse anybody who wasn't there.

Derived terms

Etymology 4

From the resemblance to white corn kernels.

Noun

corn (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.

   Synonym: corn snow

References

Anagrams

• Cron

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin corn?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“horn”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?k??n/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?k?rn/

Noun

corn m (plural corns)

1. horn (of animal)

   Synonym: banya

2. (music) horn

Derived terms

• corn anglès
• cornar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish corn (“drinking horn, goblet; trumpet, horn; curl”), from Latin corn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko???n??/

Noun

corn m (genitive singular coirn, nominative plural coirn)

1. horn (musical instrument)
2. drinking-horn

   Synonyms: corn óil, buabhall

3. (sports) cup
4. (racing) plate

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

corn (present analytic cornann, future analytic cornfaidh, verbal noun cornadh, past participle corntha)

1. (transitive) roll, coil

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• cornaigh, cornáil

Mutation

Further reading

• "corn" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “corn” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “corn” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English corn; from Proto-Germanic *kurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?nóm. Doublet of greyn.

Alternative forms

• corne, korn, coorn, curn, coren, koren

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?rn/, /k??rn/, /kurn/

Noun

corn (plural corn or cornes)

1. Any plant that bears grain, especially wheat.
2. A field planted with such plants.
3. Any kind of grain (especially as food)
4. A seed of a non-grain plant.
5. A grain or seed used as a unit of weight.
6. The optimum product; the superior portion.
7. The deserving; those who are morally right.
8. A bole (external tumourous growth).

Related terms

• corny
• kernel
• peper corn

Descendants

• English: corn (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: corn, curn
• Yola: koorn, coorn

References

• “c??rn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.

Etymology 2

Noun

corn

1. Alternative form of corne (“callus”)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?nóm (“grain”). Cognate with Old Frisian korn, Old Saxon korn (Low German Koorn), Dutch koren, Old High German korn, Old Norse korn, Gothic ???????????????????? (kaurn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /korn/, [kor?n]

Noun

corn n

1. corn, a grain or seed
   • 880-1150, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

2. a cornlike pimple, a corn on the foot

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: corn, corne, korn, coorn, curn, coren, koren
  • English: corn (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: corn, curn
  • Yola: koorn, coorn

Old French

Alternative forms

• cor, corne

Etymology

From Latin corn?.

Noun

corn m (oblique plural corns, nominative singular corns, nominative plural corn)

1. horn (bony projection found on the head of some animals)
2. horn (instrument used to create sound)

   Synonyms: olifan, graisle

Descendants

• French: cor

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [korn]

Etymology 1

From Latin corn?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“horn”).

Noun

corn n (plural coarne)

1. horn

Declension

Derived terms

• încorna
• corn?ri
• cornos

Related terms

• cornut

Etymology 2

From Latin cornus.

Noun

corn m (plural corni)

1. cornel, European cornel, Cornus mas
2. rafter (of a house)

Declension

Related terms

• coarn?

See also

• sânger

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English corn, from Old English corn.

Noun

corn (plural corns)

1. corn
2. oats
3. (in plural) crops (of grain)

Verb

corn (third-person singular present corns, present participle cornin, past cornt, past participle cornt)

1. to feed (a horse) with oats or grain

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin corn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?rn/

Noun

corn m (plural cyrn)

1. horn
2. (obsolete) chimney

Derived terms

• rhewi'n gorn (“to freeze solid”)
• Siôn Corn (“Father Christmas, Santa Claus”)

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “corn”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Alternative forms

• curn, kern, quirn

Etymology

From Middle English quern, cwerne, from Old English cweorn (“quern, hand-mill, mill”), from Proto-Germanic *kwern? (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?réh?w? (“heavy stone”), from *g?réh?us (“heavy”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kw?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kw??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Noun

quern (plural querns)

1. A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones.
   • 2005, Anne Crone, Ewan Campbell, A Crannog of the First Millennium, AD: Excavations by Jack Scott at Loch Gloshan, Argyll, 1960, page 100,

     MacKie has noted that querns that were in use in Scotland up to the present day were about 450mm—600mm in diameter and that the lower stone was completely perforated to make it adjustable (MacKie 1987, 5).

   • 2009, Charles D. Hockensmith, The Millstone Industry, page 212,

     Not surprisingly, different cultures discovered the suitability of various rock types for manufacturing querns and millstones.

Derived terms

• beehive quern
• quernstone
• saddle quern

Translations

Verb

quern (third-person singular simple present querns, present participle querning, simple past and past participle querned)

1. (transitive) To grind; to use a quern.
   • 1979, Poul Anderson, The Merman's Children, 2011, unnumbered page,

     He could almost set aside the longing for Eyjan that ever querned within him—almost—in this place so utterly sundered from everything of hers.

   • 2000, Tina Tuohy, 9: Long Handled Weaving Combs: Problems Determining the Gender of Tool-Maker and Tool-User, Moira Donald, Linda Hurcombe (editors), Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective, page 141,

     For women he thought these should include combing, spinning, querning, leather and fur-working and be associated with finds of beads, bracelets and perforated teeth.

   • 2009, Greer Gilman, Unleaving, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales, page 262,

     Beyond this now lay only chaos and a querning sea. Time's millstones, grinding bones for bread.

   • 2011, Rachel Pope, Ian Ralston, 17: Approaching Sex and Status in Iron Age Britain with Reference to the Nearer Continent, Tom Moore, Thomas Hugh Moore, X. L. Armada (editors), Atlantic Europe in the First Millennium BC: Crossing the Divide, page 401,

     From the osteology, a supposed link between squatting facets and prehistoric women—and by extension the interpretation that women were engaged in querning activity—is not demonstrated for the Iron Age: of the thirteen with the complaint in Deal, Kent, 62 per cent were male (Anderson 1995: table 29).

See also

• quirn

Middle English

Alternative forms

• querne, queerne, cwerne, quyerne, quyrne, qwerne, whern, qweryn, qwhern

Etymology

From Old English cweorn, from Proto-Germanic *kwern?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?réh?w? (“heavy stone”), from *g?réh?us (“heavy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?rn/, /kwe?rn/

Noun

quern (plural quernes)

1. A quern or quirn; a device for grinding grains.
2. A stone forming part of a quern.

Derived terms

• pepyrquerne

Descendants

• English: quern, kern, curn, quirn
• Scots: querne, quern, queirn, queern
• Yola: querne

References

• “qu???rn(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-10.