"grain" meaning in Old French

See grain in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: grain oblique singular or [canonical, masculine], grainz [oblique, plural], grainz [nominative, singular], grain [nominative, plural], grein [alternative]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-nóm Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂-nós Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm Proto-Italic *grānom Latin grānum Old French grain From Latin grānum. Etymology templates: {{etymon|fro|:inh|la:grānum|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-nóm Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂-nós Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm Proto-Italic *grānom Latin grānum Old French grain [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*grānom", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "grānum", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "grain", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fro" }" data-lang="fro" data-title="grain">, {{inh|fro|la|grānum}} Latin grānum, {{etymon|fro|:inh|la:grānum|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-nóm Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂-nós Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm Proto-Italic *grānom Latin grānum Old French grain Head templates: {{fro-noun|m}} grain oblique singular, m (oblique plural grainz, nominative singular grainz, nominative plural grain)
  1. grain (edible part of a cereal plant) Related terms: grenier, guernier
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.