corner

corner · noun, verb, interjection¹

1. Latin · derived fromcornua
2. Vulgar Latin · derived from*corna“horn”
3. Old French · derived fromcorne“corner, angle”
4. Anglo-Norman · derived fromcornere
5. Middle English · inherited fromcorner
6. English todaycorner

From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". * Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn. Also displaced native Old English sċēat.

corner · noun²

From corn + -er. Piecewise doublet of grainer.

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