Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary

Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *kwernō Scott K. Shay Wardja Press https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_kwernō

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*gʷréh₂wō heavy stone girna grindstone, millstone bró millstone, handmill

noun feminine ō-stem millstone handmill; quern From earlier *kwernuz, a rare feminine u-stem reanalysed as an ō-stem, in turn from Pre-Germanic *gʷérh₂nus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (‘heavy stone’), from *gʷréh₂us (‘heavy’). Cognate with Lithuanian girna (‘grindstone, millstone’), Russian жёрнов (žórnov, ‘grindstone, millstone’), Old Irish bró (‘millstone, handmill’).