cerna
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cerna
- third-person singular past historic of cerner
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Perhaps from Suevic, from Proto-Germanic *kernô (“kernel”). Compare Icelandic, Faroese, Old Norse kjarni (“kernel, core”).[1]
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cerna f (plural cernas)
- heartwood
- Synonym: durame
- 1418, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 112:
- por quatro levuas de çerna que mercastes a Fernan Peres, toneleiro
- because of four loads of heartwood that you bought from Fernán Pérez, barrel-maker
- por quatro levuas de çerna que mercastes a Fernan Peres, toneleiro
- 1474, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 74:
- Iten, preçaron duas grades e hun chedeiro e dous temoos de cerna, a parte dos menores em quorenta :XL -? maravedis
- Item, they appraised two grates, a cart's bed and two shafts of heartwood, the part corresponding to the kids, 40 coins
- (figurative) core, essence, kernel
- sap
- pith (the essential or vital part)
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- “çerna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cerna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cerna” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cerna” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “cierne”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay cerna, possibly from Sanskrit जीर्ण (jīrṇa, “digest”).
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cêrna
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- “cerna” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
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cerna
- inflection of cernere: