bran

English: bran

Yola: bran

From Old French bren, from Gaulish *brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“foul, rotten”).


kernel

desctree

English: kernel
→ Japanese: カーネル (kāneru)

Scots: kirnel; churnel

From Old English cyrnel, from Proto-West Germanic *kurnil; equivalent to corn + -el (agentive suffix). Some forms are influenced by corn.

The seed, grain or stone of a fruit or nut.

(by extension) A granule; a small grain, flake, or ball.

(figurative) The fundamental, superior or essential part.

(anatomy) An organ responsible for production of substances.


mile

English: mile (obsolete)

From Old English mīl (“millet”) and Latin milium (“millet”).


fan

English: fan, van

Scots: fan

From Old English fann, from Latin vannus. Forms in v- are due to a combination of Southern Middle English voicing of initial fricatives and influence from the ultimate Latin etymon.

A mechanism or device for removing chaff from grain (i.e. winnowing).


flour

English: flower, flour

Scots: flouer, flour, floor

→ Middle Welsh: fflwr

Welsh: fflŵr

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs. More at flower.

Success or achievement in a contest; victoriousness.

That which is unparalleled; the top or most superior.

An exemplar or example of a trait or behaviour.


malt

English: malt

Scots: maut

Yola: mault

From Old English mealt, from Proto-West Germanic *malt, from Proto-Germanic *maltą.

All þe wictalis owtane ſalt / Als quheyt and flour ⁊ meill ⁊ malt / In þe wyne sellar geꝛt he bꝛyng[…]

c. 1375, “Book V”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2), Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 17, verso, lines 408-410; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:

All the food except for salt, / like wheat, flour, meal, and malt, / he went to put in the wine-cellar […]


corn

English: corn (see there for further descendants)

Scots: corn, curn

Yola: coorn, koorn

Inherited from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Doublet of greyn.

Any plant that bears grain, especially wheat.

þa ƿaſ coꝛn dære: ⁊ flec ⁊ cæſe ⁊ butere. foꝛ nan ƿæſ o þe land. Ƿreccemen ſturuen of hungær.

p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:

Grain was precious then, and meat, cheese, and butter, because there wasn't any in the country. Wretched men died from hunger.

whos wynewing cloþ is in his hond .· ⁊ he ſchal fulli clenſe his coꝛn flooꝛ / and he ſchal gadere his wheete in to his berne .· but þe chaf he ſchal bꝛenne wiþ fier þat mai not be quenchid

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 3:12, page 2r, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

His winnowing fan is in his hand; he'll fully clean his threshing-floor, he'll gather up his wheat into his barn, and he'll burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.


rye

English: rye

Scots: ry

Yola: ree

From Old English ryge, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi.

Secale cereale
Secale cereale#Translingual


yelm

English: yelm, yealm

Inherited from Old English ġilm, ġelm (“handful”), from Proto-West Germanic *galmi, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to flourish”).

der

(hapax) yelm, yealm (sheaf of straw for thatching)


ote

English: oat

Scots: ait

Yola: oathès (plural)

From Old English āte (plural ātan), from Proto-West Germanic *aitā, from Proto-Germanic *aitǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyd- (“to swell”). Related to Old Norse eitill (“lymph node”).


corny

English: corny

Scots: cornie (obsolete, rare)

Yola: cornee, kurnee

Or els a draught of moyste corny ale

1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Doctour of Physyckes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

(rare) containing corn; tasting of malt, tasting well of malt, malty


mele

English: meal

Scots: meil, mele

Yola: mele, mell

From Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.


furment

From Middle French froment, fourment or its etymon Latin frūmentum.


fannen

fannen (infinitive)
to fannen (infinitive)
fanne (infinitive)
fanne (first-person present singular)
fanned (first-person past singular)
fannest (present second-person singular)
fannedest (past second-person singular)
fanneth (present singular third-person)
fanned (past singular third-person)
fanne (present singular subjunctive)
fanned (past singular subjunctive)
fanne (imperative present singular)
fannen (plural present)
fanne (plural present)
fanneden (past plural)
fannede (past plural)
fanneth (imperative plural present)
fanne (imperative plural present)
fannynge (participle present)
fannende (participle present)
fanned (participle past)
yfanned (participle past)

English: fan

Scots: fan

From Old English fannian, from Latin vannō; equivalent to fan + -en (infinitival suffix).

To process grain as to remove waste from usable product; to winnow.


gerner

English: garner

Scots: girnel, garnel

Borrowed from Old French gernier, grenier, from Latin grānārium; equivalent to greyn + -er.


oten

English: oaten

Scots: aiten


greyn

English: grain

Scots: grain

Yola: gryne

Borrowed from Old French grain, from Latin grānum, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Doublet of corn.

A grain; a cereal seed (especially as food).

But first he cheweth greyn and lycorys / To smellen sweete, er he hadde kembd his heer.

a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 3690–3691:

Though first he chews spices and licorice, / To smell sweet before he'd combed his hair.

grains of paradise
grains of paradise#English

A small mote or speck, especially of valuable substances:

A spice or condiment (especially grains of paradise).

Grain (die made with crushed insects, or a similar long-lasting dye)


wheten

English: wheaten

From Old English hwǣten; equivalent to whete + -en (“made of”).

wheaten (composed of or made out of wheat)


whete

English: wheat

Middle Scots: quhete

Scots: white, wheat, wheyt

Yola: whet

Inherited from Old English hwǣte, hwēte.

And thei crieden not to me in her herte, but ȝelliden in her beddis. Thei chewiden code on wheete, and wyn, and thei ȝeden awei fro me.

c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume III, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Hosea VII:14, page 678, column 1:

And they cried not to me from their hearts; but whined in their beds. They chewed cud on wheat, and wine, and they ran away from me.


otemele

English: oatmeal

Scots: aitmeal

oatmeal; meal made from oats or a dish made from it.


growte

English: grout

Scots: grute, gruit

Inherited from Old English grūt, from Proto-Germanic *grūtą, *grutą.


chaf

English: chaff

Scots: caff

→ Irish: cabha

Inherited from Old English ċeaf, *cæf, from Proto-West Germanic *kaf

Chaff; the parts of harvested grain not usable as food, especially straw or husks.


barly

English: barley

Scots: barlie

desc

Yola: baarich, barich, barach, barish, barlich

From Old English bærlīċ, equivalent to bere + -ly.


crappe

English: crap

Yola: crap

Borrowed from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl), from Old Dutch krappen.

James A. H. Murray
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Oxford English Dictionary
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Clarendon Press
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awne

English: awn; awns

Scots: yawin, yavin, yewn

From Old Norse ǫgn or Old English agnu, aeġne, both from Proto-Germanic *ahanō.