English
cornify
Cornify comes from Latin cornu ‘horn’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱerh₂-‘horn’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱorh₂ureconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kornū‘horn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcornu‘horn’
- Englishearliest quotation 1985cornify
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱerh₂-‘horn’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱorh₂ureconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kornū‘horn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcornu‘horn’
- Englishearliest quotation 1985cornify
Earliest quotation: 1985, Moschella & Hurley, Dermatology: “No longer in contact with an inner root sheath,…”
Formed from corn + -ify
Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm ‘grain’
Proto-Germanic *kurną ‘corn, grain, cereal’
Proto-West Germanic *korn ‘corn, grain, cereal’
Old English corn ‘corn, a grain or seed’
Middle English corn ‘any plant that bears grain, especially wheat’
English corn
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- ‘horn’
cheer, hart, horn, cerebral, crater, grail, migraine, carotid, procrastinate, cerebellum, cairn, keratin, cranium, cerebrum, rother, 50 more
through Proto-Italic *kornū ‘horn’
through Latin cornu ‘horn’
Today it means
verb To convert or be converted into horn or a similar substance
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- / cornify