cereal; corn; grain (type of plant and its fruit) · a particular kind of cereal
çekim: çoğul Getreiden · tamlayan Getreides
eş: Korn, Zerealie
köken: From Middle High German getreide, contracted from getregede, from late Old High German gitregidi (“produce, income”), a collective derived from tragen (“to bear; to bear fruit”) (DWDS).
köken: The sense of a threshing floor is only a metonymy or clipping of خرمنگاه (xermangâh, literally “crop or sheave seat”) (badly: خرمانکاه (xermânkâh, “harvest-hay”)). The origin of the whole word is unknown. If harvest breaks down to what is fitted into a long bag, somewhat of a غِرَارَة (ḡirāra), it may be the جِرَاب (jirāb, “pouch”) wanderwort, which surfaces suffixed in Arabic جِرْبَان (jirbān,…
cereal (a member of that class of grains) · breakfast cereal
çekim: çoğul δημητριακών · tamlayan δημητριακών
eş: σιτηρά
köken: From Hellenistic Koine Greek δημητριακά (dēmētriaká), neuter of δημητριακός (dēmētriakós), from Ancient Greek Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr, “Demeter (goddess of the harvest)”).
köken: Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Cognate with Turkish buğday (“wheat”), Bashkir бойҙай (boyźay, “wheat”), Chuvash пӑри (pări, “farro”) and Kalmyk байр (bayr, “wheat”); all ultimately from Proto-Turkic *boguday.
From Middle Dutch koren, corn, from Old Dutch korn, coren, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Compare Low German Koorn, German Korn, English corn, Danish korn. Doublet of graan.