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1 KVERN
(pl. -ir), f.1) quern-stone, millstone;2) quern, handmill (þar sat kona við kvern).* * *f., gen. kvernar, but the mod. form kvörn, gen. kvarnar; [Ulf. qairnus, Mark ix. 42; A. S. cwyrn; Old Engl. quern; O. H. G. quirn; Dan. kværn; Swed. quarn]:—a handmill; þar sat kona við kvern, Fms. vii. 233; ok und kvernum klaka, Ls. 44; era þat karls-ætt er á kvernum stendr, Hkv. 2. 2; bondwomen used to turn the handmills, and the turning of the quern was, as it still is in Icel., where every farm has its handmill, accompanied by singing a song, see esp. the Millsong in the Edda (Gróttasöngr), 78 sqq.2. metaph. an eddy or whirlpool in a river is called kvern, agreeably to the legend popular among all ancient Teut. people of a wonder mill grinding salt at the bottom of the sea, such as the famous mill Grótti, in the old Danish story of king Frode, which ground gold and peace, and at last the sea salt.COMPDS: kvernarauga, kverná, kvernberg, Kvernbítr, kvernfoss, kvernhús, kvernsteinn, kvernstæði. -
2 żarna
pl.Gen. żaren l. żarn quern, hand-mill; kamień do żaren quern-stone; mleć zboże w (na) żarnach grind corn in the quern.The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > żarna
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3 жёрнов
1) General subject: edge stone (в дробилке), grinder, grindstone, millstone, quern-stone2) Engineering: buhr, buhrstone, burr, burr stone, stone3) Agriculture: grinding plate5) Mining: circular stone6) Oil: burstone7) Makarov: mill-stone, runner -
4 жернов
1) General subject: edge stone (в дробилке), grinder, grindstone, millstone, quern-stone2) Engineering: buhr, buhrstone, burr, burr stone, stone3) Agriculture: grinding plate5) Mining: circular stone6) Oil: burstone7) Makarov: mill-stone, runner -
5 жернов
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6 kvernsteinn
m. quern-stone millstone (hjó hann kvernstein til augans). -
7 brà
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8 bràth
I.brà, bràtha quern, Irish bró, g. brón, Early Irish bró, g. broon, mill-stone, *brevon-, *bravon-; Sanskrit grâvan-; Lithuanian gìrnos; English quern.II.judgement, gu bràth, for ever (pron. gu bràch) "till Judgment", so Irish, Old Irish bráth, judgment, Welsh brawd, Middle Breton breut, Gaulish bratu-, *brâtu-; *brâ, *bera, judge, decide, from Indo-European bher, in the sense of "say", as in abair. The Irish barn, judge, and Welsh barn, judgment, are hence, and may be compared to Greek $$Gfrc/n, $$Gfrc/nes, soul, phrenology. Hence also breath, or breith *br$$.t-, q.v. The sense "conflagration" given in the Dict. is due to "Druidic" theorisings, and is imaginary. -
9 Mahlstein
m grinding stone* * *Mahl|steinmmillstone; (prähistorisch) quern* * *Mahl·stein* * *Mahlstein m grinding stone* * *m.grinding stone n.
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