corn
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɔːn/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /kɔɹn/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, Low German Koorn, German Korn, Norwegian and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë[1], Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum, Lithuanian žirnis and English grain.
In sense 'maize' a shortening from earlier Indian corn.
NounEdit
corn (usually uncountable, plural corns)
- (Britain, uncountable) The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
- 1611, King James Bible, Genesis 46:2, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- "And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die."
- 1847, John Mason Neale, Stories from heathen mythology and Greek history, page 115:
- Among the divinities that dwelt on Mount Olympus, none was more friendly to the husbandman than Demeter, goddess of corn.
- 1867, Karl Marx (Samuel Moore & Edward Aveling, translators), Das Kapital[2]:
- However much the individual manufacturer might give the rein to his old lust for gain, the spokesmen and political leaders of the manufacturing class ordered a change of front and of speech towards the workpeople. They had entered upon the contest for the repeal of the Corn Laws, and needed the workers to help them to victory. They promised therefore, not only a double-sized loaf of bread, but the enactment of the Ten Hours' Bill in the Free-trade millennium.
- 1887, James Death, Stories from heathen mythology and Greek history, page 12:
- [T]here exists arguments in favour of regarding one of the eatable varieties of "leaven," Machmetzeth, as the beer of the Hebrews. The mention of beer by the Egyptians is frequent; under the name of Hek, two intoxicating beverages are included. The components of these beers, individually, are not known: one was made from corn, the other was a medicated or sweetened beer, due to the addition of honey, or system of brewing.
- 1909, Johann David Wyss (Susannah Mary Paull, translator), The Swiss Family Robinson, page 462:
- I found that we had nearly a hundred bushels of corn, including wheat, maize, and barley, to add to our store.
- (US, Canada, Australia, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- 1809, Edward Augustus Kendall, Travels Through the Northern Parts of the United States[3]:
- The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it.
- 1998 February 18, Colin G. Calloway, New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America[4], JHU Press, →ISBN, pages 51-52:
- Corn was the staff of life for many Indian people before contact, and it became the staff of life for many European colonists. Corn was higher in nutrition than most other grain crops. John Lawson, who travelled in South Carolina and into the interior Indian country in 1701, was one of the many colonists who sang the praises of corn.
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- 1611, King James Bible, John 12:24, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit."
- He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.
- A small, hard particle.
- 1614, Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments
- corn of sand
- 1852, Thomas Antisell, Hand-book of the Useful Arts
- corns of powder
- 1614, Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments
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VerbEdit
corn (third-person singular simple present corns, present participle corning, simple past and past participle corned)
- (US, Canada) to granulate; to form a substance into grains
- to corn gunpowder
- (US, Canada) to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
- (US, Canada) to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed
- Corn the horses.
- (transitive) to render intoxicated
- ale strong enough to corn one
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English corne, from Old French corn (modern French cor), from Latin cornu.
NounEdit
corn (plural corns)
- A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene v]:
- Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes
Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you.
- Synonym: clavus
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Etymology 3Edit
This use was first used in 1932, as corny, something appealing to country folk.
NounEdit
corn (uncountable)
- (US, Canada) Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.[2]
- 1975, Tschirlie, Backpacker magazine,
- He had a sharp wit, true enough, but also a good, healthy mountaineer's love of pure corn, the slapstick stuff, the in-jokes that get funnier with every repetition and never amuse anybody who wasn't there.
- 1986, Linda Martin and Kerry Segrave, Women in Comedy:
- There were lots of jokes on the show and they were pure corn, but the audience didn't mind.
- 2007, Bob L. Cox, Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman: an East Tennessee old-time music pioneer and his musical family:
- The bulk of this humor was pure corn, but as hillbilly material it was meant to be that way.
- 1975, Tschirlie, Backpacker magazine,
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Etymology 4Edit
From the resemblance to white corn kernels.
NounEdit
corn (uncountable)
- (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
- Synonym: corn snow
ReferencesEdit
- ^ An Albanian Historical Grammar, Suart E. Mann, Buske, 1977, p.55
- ^ “Corn (emotion)”, in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary[1], Cambridge University Press, (Please provide a date or year)
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin cornū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
corn m (plural corns)
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IrishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish corn (“drinking horn, goblet; trumpet, horn; curl”), from Latin cornū.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
corn m (genitive singular coirn, nominative plural coirn)
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- cluiche coirn (“cup-tie”)
- corn coisceasa (“impedance coil”)
- corn comórtais (“challenge-cup”)
- corn fiaigh
- Corn na Breataine (“Cornwall”)
- corn na flúirse (“cornucopia, horn of plenty”)
- corn Sasanach (“cor anglais, English horn”)
- cuach coirn (“auger-shell”)
- faocha choirn (“whelk”)
VerbEdit
corn (present analytic cornann, future analytic cornfaidh, verbal noun cornadh, past participle corntha)
- (transitive) roll, coil
ConjugationEdit
* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form
‡‡ Dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
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MutationEdit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
corn | chorn | gcorn |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further readingEdit
- "corn" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “corn” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “corn” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Inherited from Old English corn; from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Doublet of greyn.
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NounEdit
corn (plural corn or cornes)
- Any plant that bears grain, especially wheat; a field planted with such plants.
- Any kind or sort of grain, especially used as food.
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Matheu 3:12”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- Whos wynewing cloth is in his hoond, and he ſhal fulli clenſe his corn flore, and ſhal gadere his whete in to his berne; but the chaffe he ſhal brenne with fier that mai not be quenchid.
- His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he'll completely clean his threshing-floor and gather up his wheat into his barn, but the chaff he'll burn with unquenchable fire.
- A seed or germ of a plant that is not a grain.
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[5], published c. 1410, Matheu 13:31-32, page 6v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- An oþer parable iheſus puttide foꝛþ to hem. / ⁊ ſeide / þe kyngdom of heuenes is lijk to a coꝛn of ſeneuey · which a man took ⁊ ſewe in his feeld · / which is þe leeſt of alle ſeedis / but whanne it haþ woxen .· it is the mooſt of alle woꝛtis · ⁊ is maad a tre / ſo þe bꝛiddis of þe eir comen ⁊ dwellen in þe bowis þerof.
- Jesus put another parable forwards to them, saying: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in their field; / it is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is the largest of all plants; it becomes a tree, so the birds of the air come and nest in its branches."
- A grain or seed used as a unit of weight.
- The optimum result or product; the superior section or bit.
- The deserving; those who are morally right.
- A swelling or bole; an external tumourous growth.
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ReferencesEdit
- “cō̆rn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
corn
- Alternative form of corne (“callus”)
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”). Cognate with Old Frisian korn, Old Saxon korn (Low German Koorn), Dutch koren, Old High German korn, Old Norse korn, Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (kaurn).
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NounEdit
corn n
- corn, a grain or seed
- 880-1150, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- Hīe wǣron benumene æġðer ġe ðæs ċēapes ġe ðæs cornes.
- They were deprived both of cattle and of corn.
- 880-1150, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- a cornlike pimple, a corn on the foot
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Old FrenchEdit
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NounEdit
corn m (oblique plural corns, nominative singular corns, nominative plural corn)
DescendantsEdit
- French: cor
RomanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin cornū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).
NounEdit
corn n (plural coarne)
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Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
corn m (plural corni)
- cornel, European cornel, Cornus mas
- rafter (of a house)
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ScotsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English corn, from Old English corn.
NounEdit
corn (plural corns)
VerbEdit
corn (third-person singular present corns, present participle cornin, past cornt, past participle cornt)
- to feed (a horse) with oats or grain
WelshEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin cornū.
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NounEdit
corn m (plural cyrn)
Derived termsEdit
- rhewi'n gorn (“to freeze solid”)
- Siôn Corn (“Father Christmas, Santa Claus”)
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Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
corn | gorn | nghorn | chorn |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
ReferencesEdit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “corn”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies