Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To grind; to use a quern.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA mill for grinding corn, especially a handmill made of two circular stones.
From Middle English quern, cwerne, from Old English cweorn (“quern, hand-mill, mill”), from Proto-Germanic *kwernō (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Swedish kvarn, Tocharian B kärweñe, Lithuanian girna, Russian жёрнов (žórnov, “millstone”).
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