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corn

Câu
An user
Farmers   cultivated   corn
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potatoes wheat   and   oats .

Nông dân trồng ngô, khoai tây, lúa mì và yến mạch.

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

Tính thường xuyên

B2
Phát âm là (IPA)
/kɔːn/
Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

In summary

Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish korn, Norwegian Bokmål korn, Norwegian Nynorsk korn and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao. The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developed in 18th century North America.

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