Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Kernel (Anglo-Saxon, cyrnel, a diminutive of corn; seed in general),

 Kerna.Kersey. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Kernel (Anglo-Saxon, cyrnel, a diminutive of corn; seed in general),
 
whence acorn (the ac or oak corn).   1
 


 Kerna.Kersey. 

 
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