quern
pronunciation
How to pronounce quern in British English:
UK [kwɜːn]
How to pronounce quern in American English:
US [ kwɜːrn]
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- Noun:
- a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand
Word Origin
- quern (n.)
- Old English cweorn "hand-mill, mill," from PIE *gwere-na- "millstone" (cognates: Old Norse kvern, Old Frisian quern, Old High German quirn, Gothic quirnus; Sanskrit grava "crushing stone;" Lithuanian girna "millstone," girnos "hand mills;" Old Church Slavonic zrunuvi "mills;" Welsh brevan "hand mill"), suffixed form of root *gwere- (2) "heavy" (see grave (adj.)).
Example
- 1. I learnt a lot of thing at the school I learnt quern to read and write somali and I also learnt how to play soccer .