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Is quern a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word quern is a Scrabble US word. The word quern is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is quern a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word quern is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

Q10U1E1R1N1

Is quern a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word quern is a Words With Friends word. The word quern is worth 16 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

Q10U2E1R1N2

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5-letter words (1 found)

QUERN,

4-letter words (1 found)

RUNE,

3-letter words (7 found)

ERN,NUR,REN,RUE,RUN,URE,URN,

2-letter words (7 found)

EN,ER,NE,NU,RE,UN,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from quern according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of quern

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Definitions and meaning of quern

quern

Alternative forms

  • curn, kern, quirn

Etymology

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 Tocharian B kärweñe, Lithuanian girna, Russian жёрнов (žórnov, “millstone”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /kwɝn/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kwɜːn/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n

Noun

quern (plural querns)

  1. A mill for grinding corn, especially a handmill made of two circular stones.

Derived terms

  • beehive quern
  • quernstone
  • saddle quern

Translations

Verb

quern (third-person singular simple present querns, present participle querning, simple past and past participle querned)

  1. (transitive) To grind; to use a quern.

See also

  • quirn

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • querne, queerne, cwerne, quyerne, quyrne, qwerne, whern, qweryn, qwhern

Etymology

From Old English cweorn, from Proto-Germanic *kwernō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kwɛrn/, /kweːrn/

Noun

quern (plural quernes)

  1. A quern or quirn; a device for grinding grains.
  2. A stone forming part of a quern.

Derived terms

  • pepyrquerne

Descendants

  • English: quern, kern, curn, quirn
  • Scots: querne, quern, queirn, queern
  • Yola: querne

References

  • “quẹ̄̆rn(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-10.

Source: wiktionary.org