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koren.

grain; corn (any cereal)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkoː.rə(n)/
  1. grain; corn (any cereal)

    neuter · no-diminutive · uncountable
    Het veld stond vol met rijpe aren vol met koren.
    Koren is een belangrijke voedselbron voor mens en dier.
Where this word comes from

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.

verb/ˈkoː.rə(n)/
  1. to be sick, to have a tendency to vomit; to vomit

    dated · dialectal · intransitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch coren.

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