corn

«corn» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: grain, wheat — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

grain, wheat

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

The seeds of grain plants, used as food for people and animals. tree →

how it differs from today

In the USA corn means maize. In these sentences it means grain in general, such as wheat, and the sentences use that old sense.

examples

• And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt. (Torah GEN.42.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• "Who sowed this sort of corn?" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence. (Torah GEN.42.26, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

corn

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 305 (Torah 34, tales 271, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 3; ratio 4.9 (Torah alone 11.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.
• And he said: 'Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt.
• And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt.
• And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence.
• Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «corn» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.