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”). Confer 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 (ed.), 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. (figuratively) core, essence

   Synonyms: miolo, núcleo

• cernar

• “çerna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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): /t͡ʃər.na/
• Hyphenation: cêr‧na

cêrna

1. digested

• “cerna” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

cerna

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of cernere
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of cernere
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of cernere
4. third-person singular imperative of cernere