cerna

cerna

1. third-person singular past historic of cerner

• ancre, ancré, crâne, écran, encra, nacre, rance

• cerne, cerno

Perhaps from Suevic, from Proto-Germanic *kernô (“kernel”). Compare Icelandic, Faroese, Old Norse kjarni (“kernel, core”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɛɾna̝/, (western) /ˈsɛɾna̝/

cerna f (plural cernas)

1. heartwood

   Synonym: durame

   • 1418, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 112:

     por quatro levuas de çerna que mercastes a Fernan Peres, toneleiro

     because of four loads of heartwood that you bought from Fernán Pérez, barrel-maker

   • 1474, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 74:

     Iten, preçaron duas grades e hun chedeiro e dous temoos de cerna, a parte dos menores em quorenta :XL -? maravedis

     Item, they appraised two grates, a cart's bed and two shafts of heartwood, the part corresponding to the kids, 40 coins

2. (figurative) core, essence, kernel

   Synonyms: miolo, núcleo

3. sap
4. pith (the essential or vital part)

• cernar

• “çerna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cerna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cerna” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cerna” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Malay cerna, possibly from Sanskrit जीर्ण (jīrṇa, “digest”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃər.na]
• Hyphenation: cêr‧na
• Rhymes: -na, -a

cêrna

1. digested

• “cerna” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

cerna

1. inflection of cernere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• carne