English
excern
Excern comes from Latin excernō ‘to sift out, separate’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *krey-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*krey-‘to sift, separate, divide’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*krinō‘to sift, separate’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcernō‘separate, sift’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcernō‘to sift out, separate’
- Englishearliest quotation 1627excern
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*krey-‘to sift, separate, divide’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*krinō‘to sift, separate’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcernō‘separate, sift’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcernō‘to sift out, separate’
- Englishearliest quotation 1627excern
Earliest quotation: 1627, (please specify the page, or |century=I to X): “That which is dead, or corrupted; or excerned, hath…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *krey- ‘to sift, separate, divide’
secret, crime, criminal, certain, crisis, critic, critique, riddle, discreet, hypocrite, criterion, endocrine, incriminate, rime, discernible, incrimination, discernment, recrimination, ridder, criterium, excrete, certitude, 42 more
through Latin cernō ‘separate, sift’
secretary, discrimination, discretion, discrete, discriminate, secretion, secrete, discern, 7 more
through Latin excernō ‘to sift out, separate’
Today it means
verb excrete; give off
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *krey- / excern