quern

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• General-American: /kwɝn/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /kwɜːn/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)n
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From Middle English quern, cwerne, from Old English cweorn (“quern, hand-mill, mill”), from Proto-Germanic *kwernō (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *gwréh2wō (“heavy stone”), from *gwréh2us (“heavy”). Cognate with Swedish kvarn, Tocharian B kärweñe, Lithuanian girna, Russian жёрнов (žórnov, “millstone”).

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: երկանք (erkankʻ) — mill
• Bulgarian: хромел (hromel) — mill
• Chinese Mandarin: 手推磨 (shǒutuīmó) — mill
• Czech: žernov — mill
• Danish: kværn — mill
• Dutch: kweern — mill
• Dutch: handmolen — mill
• Finnish: mylly — mill
• Finnish: käsikivi — mill
• French: moulin à bras — mill
• Galician: muíño — mill
• German: Handmühle — mill
• German: Querne — mill
• Irish: bró — mill
• Old Irish: brao — mill
• Italian: macinatoio a mano — mill
• Japanese: 碾き臼 (hikiusu) — mill
• Japanese: ひき臼 (hikiusu) — mill
• Central Kurdish: دەستاڕ (destarr) — mill
• Laki: دەسەھەڕ (deseherr) — mill
• Northern Kurdish: destarr — mill
• Southern Kurdish: دەسھەڕ (desherr) — mill
• Latvian: dzir̃nas — mill
• Latvian: dzir̃nus — mill
• Lithuanian: gi̇̀rnos — mill
• Manx: braain — mill
• Middle English: querne — mill
• Norwegian: håndkvern — mill
• Polish: żarna — mill
• Russian: ручна́я ме́льница (ručnája mélʹnica) — mill
• Scottish Gaelic: brà — mill
• Slovak: žarnov — mill
• Southern Altai: кол теермен (kol teermen) — mill
• Spanish: molino de mano — mill
• Spanish: molino portátil — mill
• Spanish: metate — mill
• Swedish: kvarn — mill
• Ottoman Turkish: ال دكرمنی (el değirmeni) — mill
• Ukrainian: жо́рна (žórna) — mill
• Welsh: breuan — mill