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quern
- /kwɝn/ US
- /kwɜːn/ UK
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)n
Where it comes from
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”).
noun querns · curn · kern · quirn
- A mill for grinding corn, especially a handmill made of two circular stones. She is shaking in ingredients from various small bottles and querns produced from the pockets of her robes, and from the drawer in the wooden table.
verb querns · querning · querned · curn · kern
- To grind; to use a quern. He could almost set aside the longing for Eyjan that ever querned within him—almost—in this place so utterly sundered from everything of hers.
Translations
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noun mill
| Español | molino de mano, molino portátil, metate |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 碾き臼 hikiusu, ひき臼 hikiusu |
| 中文 | 手推磨 shǒutuīmó |
| Français | moulin à bras |
| Deutsch | Handmühle, Querne |
| Italiano | macinatoio a mano |
| Русский | ручна́я ме́льница ručnája mélʹnica |
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