kern

/kɝn/

UK: /kɜːn/

kern

English Noun Top 21,330

Definition

A corn; grain; kernel.

Etymology

From Middle English curn, cooren, variant forms of Middle English corn, see English corn and also Dutch kern, Old High German kerno, cherno, Middle High German kerne, kern, German Kern (“core, kernel”), Old Norse kjarni, Icelandic kjarni, Danish kjerne, Swedish kärna (“core, kernel”); see also kernel.