korn

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n. [Goth. kaurn = σιτος and kaurnô = κόκκος; A. S. and Engl. corn; O. H. G. chorn; Germ. and Dan. korn]:—corn, grain; ellefu korn, ok ellefu pipar-korn, 655 xxx. 8; leynisk í litlu korni afl trésins, Greg. 14; hleifr er görr af mörgum kornum, 625. 90: seed, grain, korn eðr malt, Ó. H. 113; hann skal honum greiða kýr ok korn, smjör ok vöru, Gþl. 305; sumir skáru korn, sumir bundu, sumir óku heim korninu, Ó. H. 30; þar var hallæri á korni (a bad crop) en gott korn (a good crop) austr í land, 102; korn (crop) var heldr úárvænt, 113; færa menn niðr korn sín, Nj. 169; hann sár þar niðr korninu, 82; er ok íllu komi til sáð, enda mun íllt af gróa, a saying, 174; sá himnesku korni í hjörtu manna, H. E. 500: flour, tak rúgbrauð, eigi blandat við annat korn, Lækn.:—in plur. stores of grain, hann flutti með sér mikil korn, Fms. vii. 173; þar vóru forn korn, Ó. H. 102, 113:—oats, corn, (Swed. hesta-korn, cp. ‘a feed of corn’), gefa hestum korn, 31; hann var Gauzkr hlaupari ok alinn á korni vetr ok sumar, Gullþ. 12:—Mikkjals-korn, Ólafs-korn, Michael’s corn, St. Olave’s corn, a kind of tithe paid to the church in Norway, Fr.

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   metaph. a bit, grain; ok þar kemr lítið korn niðr af þeim bita, of a bit of meat, Fas. i. 54; hákarls-korn, Snót 226; sand-korn, a grain of sand.

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      in mod. usage freq. as a diminutive suffix to a noun; það var máltak hans við hvern mann, bróðir! karl-korn mitt! of bishop Sweyn, who died A. D. 1476. Esp. Árb. 1475; barn-korn, a bit of a bairn = τεκνίον; stundar-korn, a little while; hús-korn, a scrap of a house; bú-korn, a small household; orð-korn, a little word: this use, however, scarcely occurs before the 15th century (unless it be in the passage Fas. l. c., which, however, is only found in a paper MS.), and it may be a kind of imitation of the Germ. -chen.