donald j haarmann schreef
Stem "corn"?!
Not what my dictionary says!!
OE æern, æcren - mast, oak mast.
donald j haarmann

"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote
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Wrong dictionary.
As words go this one has got a fairly respectable age:
it is pre-Norman invasion.
Look again.
PvR

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donald j haarmann - independently dubious:
NB "OE" = Old English

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aka Anglo-Saxon, pre-Norman invasion (for those not knowing this, eg in the
US: the Norman invasion was in 1066 and came from France)
PvR

NB more fully (www.wordorigins.org/histeng.htm):
"Old English (500-1100 AD)
West Germanic invaders from Jutland and southern Denmark: the ANGLES (whose
name is the source of the words England and English), SAXONS, and Jutes,
began populating the British Isles in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. They
spoke a mutually intelligible language, similar to modern Frisian--the
language of northeastern region of the Netherlands--that is called Old
English. Four major dialects of Old English emerged, Northumbrian in the
north of England, Mercian in the Midlands, West Saxon in the south and west,
and Kentish in the Southeast."