English
grape kernel
Grape kernel comes from Middle English grape kirnell.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500grape kirnell
- Englishtodaygrape kernel
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500grape kirnell
- Englishtodaygrape kernel
Frankish *krappō ‘hook’
Old French graper ‘to pick grapes’
Old French grappe ‘cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes’
English grape
Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm ‘grain’
Proto-Germanic *kurną ‘seed, grain, corn’
Proto-West Germanic *kurnil ‘kernel of a nut’
Old English cyrnel ‘a kernel’
Middle English kernel
English kernel
Every English word from Middle English grape kirnell
Today it means
noun The kernel of a grape; grapeseed
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English grape kirnell / grape kernel