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PARTIAL ENGLISH COVERAGE · FULL CORPUS REMAINS LOCAL9 source sections across 2 headwords matching “Core”. These are separate from the reviewed results below.
CoreEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “maiden”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗CoreEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From French Coré.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗coreEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of obscure and uncertain origin. Possibly of native English origin, from Old English *cor, related to Old English *coruc, *corc (diminutive) (> Middle English cork, crok (“core of an apple or other fruit, heart of an onion”)) and Old English corn (“seed", also "grain”); or alternatively perhaps from Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”), Dutch kern (“core”), German Kern (“core”). See also heart, corpse. Compare typologically Russian серде́чник (serdéčnik), сердцеви́на (serdcevína)) (akin to се́рдце (sérdce), cognate with heart, Latin cor).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗coreEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of obscure and uncertain origin. Possibly of native English origin, from Old English *cor, related to Old English *coruc, *corc (diminutive) (> Middle English cork, crok (“core of an apple or other fruit, heart of an onion”)) and Old English corn (“seed", also "grain”); or alternatively perhaps from Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”), Dutch kern (“core”), German Kern (“core”). See also heart, corpse. Compare typologically Russian серде́чник (serdéčnik), сердцеви́на (serdcevína)) (akin to се́рдце (sérdce), cognate with heart, Latin cor).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗coreEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
coreEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
coreEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗coreEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
Possibly an acronym for cash on return.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗coreEnglish (en) · Etymology 6Source text
From -core, ultimately from Etymology 1.
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024011
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 2
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Does negative caisgen reveal the timeless core of cais?
No. The compound supplies one negative formation, not a license to reinterpret every positive citation as concealed hatred.
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Did vriend always mean only a non-relative companion?
No. WNT and MNW document relation, lover, ally, patron, address, mediator, and supporter senses.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 174GRADE Aranked reveal
Collect almost says its Latin construction aloud.
Latin colligere joins com- with legere: gathering together. Unlike many dramatic semantic reversals, the modern English core remains strikingly close to the historical construction.
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