Noun: cerna
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | cerna |
| Plural f | cernas |
Sample Sentences
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por quatro levuas de çerna que mercastes a Fernan Peres, toneleiro (because of four loads of heartwood that you bought from Fernán Pérez, barrel-maker) [1418, Ángel Rodríguez González, editor, Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422), Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 112:]
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Iten, preçaron duas grades e hun chedeiro e dous temoos de cerna, a parte dos menores em quorenta :XL -? maravedis (Item, they appraised two grates, a cart's bed and two shafts of heartwood, the part corresponding to the kids, 40 coins) [1474, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 74:]
Nouns inflected like cerna
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Perhaps from Suevic, from Proto-Germanic *kernô (“kernel”). Compare Icelandic, Faroese, Old Norse kjarni (“kernel, core”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
kjarni'.
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