quern

An Early Neolithic (3700 - 3500 BC) saddle quern and rubbing stone

Meanings

Noun

  • A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones.

Verb

  • To grind; to use a quern.

Origin

  • From Middle English quern, cwerne, from Old English cweorn ("quern, hand-mill, mill"), from Proto-Germanic *kwernō ("millstone"), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō, from *gʷréh₂us.

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