Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter. · A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk). · Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company. · The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream. · To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion. · To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake. · To stop using a company's product or service.
Noun from Middle English chyrne, cherne, kyrne ( > Scots kirn), from Old English ċyrn, ċyrin, ċirin (“churn”), from Proto-Germanic *kirnijǭ (“churn”); verb from Middle English chyrnen from Old English ċernan, from Proto-Germanic *kirnijaną (“to churn, stir”), of unknown origin. Cognate with West Frisian tsjerne, Dutch karn, Walloon serene, German Karn, Kirne, Norwegian Bokmål kjerne, Danish kærne, Swedish kärna, Icelandic kirna.
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- Inherited-form mentionchyrneenm
- Inherited-form mentionċyrnang
- Derivation mention*kirnijǭgem-pro
- Inherited-form mentionchyrnenenm
- Inherited-form mentionċernanang
- Derivation mention*kirnijanągem-pro
- Cognate mentiontsjernefy
- Cognate mentionkarnnl
- Cognate mentionserenewa
- Cognate mentionKarnde
- Cognate mentionkjernenb
- Cognate mentionkærneda
- Cognate mentionkärnasv
- Cognate mentionkirnais
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