querne

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *kwern, *kwerna, from Proto-Germanic *kwernuz.

Noun

querne f

1. quern

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: kweern

Further reading

• “querne”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “querne”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Middle English

Alternative forms

• quern, queerne, quyerne, quyrne, qwerne
• cwerne (Early Middle English)
• qwhern, qweryn, whern (Northern)

Etymology

From Old English cweorn, from Proto-West Germanic *kwernu, from Proto-Germanic *kwernō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”). The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique forms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɛrn(ə)/, /ˈkweːrn(ə)/, /ˈkwɛːrn(ə)/

Noun

querne (plural quernes)

1. A quern or quirn; a device for grinding grains.
2. A stone forming part of a quern.

Derived terms

• peperquerne

Descendants

• English: quern, kern, curn, quirn
• Scots: querne, quern, queirn, queern
• Yola: querne

References

• “quẹ̄̆rn(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-10.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English querne, from Old English cweorn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɛrn/

Noun

querne

1. handmill

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 63