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Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From cweorn + stān, from cweornstān, from Proto-Germanic *kwernōstainaz. Cognate with Old High German quirnstein and Old Norse kvernsteinn.
Pronunciation
Noun
cweornstān m
- quernstone, millstone
Lǣt niman ǣnne grēatne cwurnstān and hǣtan hine and lecgan hine under þone man- Let one take a great quernstone and heat it and lie it underneath it
Ðæt him wǣre getiged ān ormǣte cwyrnstān to his swuran, and he swā wurde on dēoppre sǣ besenced- That to him were tied an immense quernstone on his neck, and so was he sunk in the deep sea
Declension
Declension of cweornstan (strong a-stem)
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