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CornEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* As an English surname, from the nouns crane, corn, and quern. * As a German surname, spelling variant of Korn, meaning "grain."
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cornEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-nóm Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂-nós Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm Proto-Germanic *kurną Proto-West Germanic *korn Old English corn Middle English corn English corn Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao. The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developed in 18th century North America.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cornEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-nóm Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂-nós Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm Proto-Germanic *kurną Proto-West Germanic *korn Old English corn Middle English corn English corn Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao. The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developed in 18th century North America.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cornEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ ? Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-der. Proto-Italic *kornū Latin cornū̆ Latin cornua Vulgar Latin *corna Old French cornebor. Middle English corne English cornInherited from Middle English corne, from Old French corn (modern French cor), from Latin cornū. Doublet of corno, cornu, and horn.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cornEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From corny.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cornEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
Rhyming euphemism for porn, and with influence from the emoji substitute 🌽.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- CornEnglish · e-37683-6081
Corn, korn, n. a grain or kernel: seeds that grow in ears, as wheat, rye, &c.: grain of all kinds.—v.t. to form into grains; to sprinkle with salt in grains: to salt.—ns. Corn′-ball (U.S.), a ball of popped corn, sweeten
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Corn, korn, n. a small hard growth chiefly on the toe or foot, resulting from an increase of thickness of the cuticle, caused by excessive pressure or friction on the part.—adj. Cor′neous, horny.—n. Corn′-plas′ter, a rem
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
noun · verbdossier summary
clew
A ball of thread, a nautical corner or line, and the older spelling behind clue.
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hatr
An Old Norse noun for hatred, enmity, or spite. The University of Copenhagen Dictionary of Old Norse Prose gives the main neuter entry 54 citations, while a separately analyzed masculine entry has only one citation and is flagged as possibly an elementary error. The neuter corpus also contains one cautiously proposed mockery or scorn sense aligned with Latin irrisio. A c.1150-1200 manuscript visibly preserves Hatr in a line ONP transcribes Hatr hafa þeir engla and aligns with Latin Odium. The reviewed ancestry joins the Germanic *hatiz- family, preserves the disputed *ḱh₂d-es- and *ḱeh₂d- comparison, and then stops.
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
clew
a ball of thread; a guiding clue; a nautical corner, loop, or line
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- before the 12th century–today
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- gloss
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Old Norse / Indo-European
hatr
hatred, enmity, spite; perhaps mockery or scorn in one uncertain context
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- Old Norse textual record
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- gloss
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 1
openproposedposition text
Could hatr mean mockery or scorn?
Possibly in one context. ONP prints question marks before both the Danish and English glosses and compares Latin irrisio. One source-reported passage does not establish a broad independent sense.
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contemporary dictionary26 CLAIM LINKS
Duden — hassen
Dudenredaktion / 2026
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hetzen — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, Herkunft
Dudenredaktion
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Duden — Feind
Dudenredaktion / 2026
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Duden — Hass
Dudenredaktion / 2026
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Weib — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, Herkunft
Duden Editors / 2026
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Duden — Freund
Dudenredaktion / 2026
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Dictionary of Old Norse Prose citation — proposed mockery or scorn sense of hatr
Dictionary of Old Norse Prose editors / 2026
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SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Spakmǽli Prospers: Epigrammata
hatr / hatr / c.1200-1225, source-reported
Dictionary of Old Norse Prose citation — proposed mockery or scorn sense of hatrreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus
English prose works of Richard Rolle, selected edition
hatrede / hatreden / hateredyn / hatred / Middle English text, edition page 88
English prose works of Richard Rolle: a selectionwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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