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KernEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
The unincorporated community in Missouri is named after Robert Kern. The Kern River is named after Edward Kern.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗kernEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English curn, cooren, variant forms of Middle English corn, see English corn and also Dutch kern, Old High German kerno, cherno, Middle High German kerne, kern, German Kern (“core, kernel”), Old Norse kjarni, Icelandic kjarni, Danish kjerne, Swedish kärna (“core, kernel”); see also kernel.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗kernEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From French carne (“corner; projecting angle; quill of a pen”), from Latin cardinem (“hinge”) or from Etymology 1. The verb is a back-formation from kerned, which is from the noun. Doublet of cardo.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗kernEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From Middle English kerne, from Middle Irish ceithern. Doublet of quaternion.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- KernEnglish · e-38538-6626
Kern. See Quern.
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Kern, kėrn n. (Scot.) the last sheaf of the harvest: a harvest-home—also Kirn.—n. Kern′-bā′by, an image decorated with blades of corn, &c., carried before reapers at their harvest-home. [A variant of corn.]
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Kern, Kerne, kėrn, n. an Irish foot-soldier: a boor.—adj. Kern′ish, clownish. [Ir. ceatharnach.]
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Kern, kėrn, v.i. to granulate.
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Kern, kėrn, n. (print.) that part of a type which overhangs the stem or shank.
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