corn – English noun declension

English noun forms of corn

Noun: corn
Singularcorn
Pluralcorns

Sample Sentences

  • And hee ſaid, Beholde, I haue heard that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thither and buy for vs from thence, that we may liue, and not die. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 42:2, column 2:]
  • Among the divinities that dwelt on Mount Olympus, none was more friendly to the husbandman than Demeter, goddess of corn. [1847, John Mason Neale, Stories from heathen mythology and Greek history, page 115:]
  • Moreover, however much the individual manufacturer might give the rein to his old lust for gain, the spokesmen and political leaders of the manufacturing class ordered a change of front and of speech towards the workpeople. They had entered upon the contest for the repeal of the Corn Laws, and needed the workers to help them to victory. They promised, therefore, not only a double-sized loaf of bread, but the enactment of the Ten Hours' Bill in the Free Trade millenium. [1887, Karl Marx, “The Working Day”, in Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, transl., edited by Frederick [i.e., Friedrich] Engels, Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production: Translated from the Third German Edition, volume I, London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co., […], →OCLC, part III (The Production of Absolute Surplus-value), section 6 (The Struggle for the Normal Working Day. […]), page 267:]
  • [T]here exists arguments in favour of regarding one of the eatable varieties of "leaven," Machmetzeth, as the beer of the Hebrews. The mention of beer by the Egyptians is frequent; under the name of Hek, two intoxicating beverages are included. The components of these beers, individually, are not known: one was made from corn, the other was a medicated or sweetened beer, due to the addition of honey, or system of brewing. [1887, James Death, The Beer of the Bible: One of the Hitherto Unknown Leavens of Exodus. […], page 12:]
  • I found that we had nearly a hundred bushels of corn, including wheat, maize, and barley, to add to our store. [1909, Johann David Wyss (Susannah Mary Paull, translator), The Swiss Family Robinson, page 462:]
  • The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it. [1809, Edward Augustus Kendall, Travels Through the Northern Parts of the United States:]
  • Corn was the staff of life for many Indian people before contact, and it became the staff of life for many European colonists. Corn was higher in nutrition than most other grain crops. John Lawson, who travelled in South Carolina and into the interior Indian country in 1701, was one of the many colonists who sang the praises of corn. [1998 February 18, Colin G. Calloway, New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America, JHU Press, →ISBN, pages 51–52:]
  • He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.
  • Verely, verely, I ſay vnto you, Except a corne of wheat fall into the ground, and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 12:24, column 2:]
  • The least corn of sand is not so small to the whole earth, as man is to the heaven:[…] [1612–1626, Joseph Hall, “[Contemplations upon the Principal Passages in the Holy Story. Book I.] Of Man.”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume I (Contemplations), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC, part IV (Contemplations on the Old Testament), page 8:]
  • corns of powder [1852, Thomas Antisell, Hand-book of the Useful Arts:]
  • R.I.P Scumpy ah you did say Popcaan
  • And if a boy diss we clap corn. [2014 June 9, Andrae Hugh Sutherland respectively Popcaan of Popcaan, “Where We Come From” (track 13), in Where We Come From:]
  • We got spinners and dotties
  • We got .40s and MACs
  • We got nuff live corn
  • […] See the four-door pausing
  • Skengs out, everyone runnin
  • But the corn just slapped and floored em
  • 50 shots in that mop [2016 September 9, Liquez respectively Dimzy of 67, “Jump Out Gang” (track 7), in Let’s Lurk:]
  • You know dem have wedge while we have corn. Say Cockney say be first, my son! We just say Gwan! [1984, Smiley Culture, Cockney Translator (song title):]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-nóm
4. Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂-nós
5. Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm
6. Proto-Germanic *kurną
7. Proto-West Germanic *korn
8. Old English corn
9. Middle English corn
10. English corn
11. Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”).
12. Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao.
13. The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developed in 18th century North America. See: Middle English Nouns 'corn', Middle English Nouns 'corn', Old English Nouns 'corn', Dutch Nouns 'koren', German Nouns 'Korn', Czech Nouns 'zrno', Latin Nouns 'grānum'.

Verbs referencing "corn"

English Nouns kern, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns korn, Dutch Nouns koren.