I find it a little disturbing that the word “corn” is being used to describe what was “grain” prior to the early 1500’s. Corn was not known before then until Europe made it to Central/South America.
That definition of ‘corn’ is a more recent one (from the 1600s). Prior to that, ‘corn’ was (and still is technically) a grain or seed of any kind. Bosworth-Toller undoubtedly uses that word in their definition because that was the meaning of the Old English word ‘corn’. ‘Grain’ doesn’t enter English until the end of the 13th century.
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I find it a little disturbing that the word “corn” is being used to describe what was “grain” prior to the early 1500’s. Corn was not known before then until Europe made it to Central/South America.
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That definition of ‘corn’ is a more recent one (from the 1600s). Prior to that, ‘corn’ was (and still is technically) a grain or seed of any kind. Bosworth-Toller undoubtedly uses that word in their definition because that was the meaning of the Old English word ‘corn’. ‘Grain’ doesn’t enter English until the end of the 13th century.
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