Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kurną

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkur.nɑ̃/

Noun

*kurną n

1. corn, grain, cereal

Inflection

Declension of *kurną (neuter a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	*kurną	*kurnō
vocative	*kurną	*kurnō
accusative	*kurną	*kurnō
genitive	*kurnas, *kurnis	*kurnǫ̂
dative	*kurnai	*kurnamaz
instrumental	*kurnō	*kurnamiz

Derived terms

• *kernô
• *kurnahūsą
• *kurnô

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *korn
  • Old English: corn
    • Middle English: corn, coorn, coren, corne, curn, koren, korn
      • English: corn (see there for further descendants)
      • Scots: corn, curn
      • Yola: coorn, koorn
  • Old Frisian: korn
    • Saterland Frisian: Koarel (via dissimilation)
    • West Frisian: koarn
  • Old Saxon: korn
    • Middle Low German: korn
      • Low German: Korn
      • Plautdietsch: Kuarn
  • Old Dutch: korn, coren (in compounds)
    • Middle Dutch: corn, kōren
      • Dutch: koren, koorn (archaic)
        • Afrikaans: koring
        • Negerhollands: koorn
        • → Sranan Tongo: karu
          • → Saramaccan: kálu
  • Old High German: korn, chorn
    • Middle High German: korn
      • Alemannic German: Chorn
      • Central Franconian: Koon, Kor, Korn (Moselle Franconian)
      • Cimbrian: khòrn
      • German: Korn
      • Luxembourgish: Kar
      • Mòcheno: kourn
      • Yiddish: קאָרן (korn)
• Proto-Norse: *ᚲᛟᚱᚾᚨ (*korna)
  • ⇒ Proto-Norse: ᚹᚨᛚᚺᚨᚲᚢᚱᚾᛖ (walhakurnē) (dative singular)
  • Old Norse: korn
    • Icelandic: korn
    • Faroese: korn
    • Norn: korn
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: (dialectal) korn, kørn
    • Norwegian Bokmål: korn
    • Old Swedish: korn
      • Swedish: korn
    • Danish: korn
• Gothic: 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (kaurn)
• Crimean Gothic: kor
• → Proto-Samic: *kornē (see there for further descendants)