English
Quorn
Quorn comes from Old English cweorndun.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150cweorndun
- Englishearliest quotation 1902Quorn
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150cweorndun
- Englishearliest quotation 1902Quorn
Earliest quotation: 1902, John Buchan: “The House of More has a pretty Georgian paneling…”
A compound of cweorn ‘millstone’ + dun ‘hill’
Proto-Indo-European *gʷreh₂- ‘heavy’
Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us ‘heavy’
Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō ‘heavy stone’
Proto-Germanic *kwernō ‘millstone’
Proto-West Germanic *kwernu ‘quern, hand-mill’
Old English cweorn ‘millstone’
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- ‘to last’
Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-nós ‘lasting, durable’
Proto-Celtic *dūnom ‘stronghold, rampart’
Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- ‘to smoke, fume, raise dust’
Proto-Germanic *dūnaz ‘heap, pile’
Proto-West Germanic *dūnu ‘sand dune’
Old English dun ‘hill’
The story
Shortened from earlier Quorndon, from Old English cweorndun, from cweorn (‘millstone; quern’) + dun (‘hill’). The fox hunt, the meat substitute and the town in Australia are named after the village in Leicestershire.
Every English word from Old English cweorndun
Today it means
name A famous fox hunt (one of the world's oldest, established in 1696) in Leicestershire.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old English cweorndun / Quorn