Kern
English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Keirn
Etymology
The unincorporated community in Missouri is named after Robert Kern. The Kern River is named after Edward Kern.
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Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /kɝn/Category:English 1-syllable words#KERNCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#KERN
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɜːn/Category:English 1-syllable words#KERNCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#KERN
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nCategory:Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)n#KERNCategory:Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)n/1 syllable#KERN
Proper noun
KernCategory:English lemmas#KERNCategory:English proper nouns#KERNCategory:English uncountable nouns#KERNCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#KERNCategory:Pages with entries#KERNCategory:Pages with 5 entries#KERN
- A surnameCategory:English surnames#KERN.
- An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri, United StatesCategory:en:Unincorporated communities in Missouri, USA#KERNCategory:en:Places in Missouri, USA#KERNCategory:en:Places in the United States#KERN.
- A river in California, United StatesCategory:en:Rivers in California, USA#KERNCategory:en:Rivers in the United States#KERNCategory:en:Places in California, USA#KERNCategory:en:Places in the United States#KERN.
Derived terms
Anagrams
Category:English eponyms#KERN Category:en:Rivers in the United States#KERNGerman
Etymology
From Middle High GermanCategory:German terms inherited from Middle High German#KERNCategory:German terms derived from Middle High German#KERN kerne, kern, from Old High GermanCategory:German terms inherited from Old High German#KERNCategory:German terms derived from Old High German#KERN kerno, from Proto-GermanicCategory:German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#KERNCategory:German terms derived from Proto-Germanic#KERN *kernô (“core, kernel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɛrn/, [kɛʁn], [kɛɐ̯n]Category:German 1-syllable words#KERNCategory:German terms with IPA pronunciation#KERN
- Rhymes: -ɛʁnCategory:Rhymes:German/ɛʁn#KERNCategory:Rhymes:German/ɛʁn/1 syllable#KERN
Category:German terms with audio pronunciation#KERNAudio (Germany (Berlin)): (file) - Homophone: kehren (one pronunciation)Category:German terms with homophones#KERN
Noun
Kern m (strong, genitive Kernes or Kerns, plural Kerne)Category:German lemmas#KERNCategory:German nouns#KERNCategory:German entries with incorrect language header#KERNCategory:German masculine nouns#KERNCategory:Pages with entries#KERNCategory:Pages with 5 entries#KERN
- (also mathematicsCategory:de:Mathematics#KERN) kernel
- grain
- core, nucleus
- im Kern ― fundamentally, in essence, at its coreCategory:German terms with collocations#KERN
- (physicsCategory:de:Physics#KERN, chemistryCategory:de:Chemistry#KERN) nucleus
- pit, pip, stone (of a fruit)
Declension
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- des Pudels Kern
- Kernbaustein
- Kernbegriff
- Kernbindungsenergie
- Kernbrennstoff
- Kernenergie
- Kernfamilie
- Kernfusion
- Kernfusionsanlage
- Kernfusionsreaktor
- Kerngedanke
- Kerngehäuse
- Kernholz
- Kernikterus
- Kernisomer
- Kernkraft
- Kernkraftwerk
- Kernphysik
- Kernpunkt
- Kernreaktion
- Kernreaktor
- Kernreaktorunfall
- Kernresonanz
- Kernresonanzspektroskopie
- Kernschmelze
- Kernspaltung
- Kernspintomogramm
- Kernspintomograph
- Kernspintomographie
- Kernstück
- Kerntechnik
- Kernthema
- Kernverschmelzung
- Kernwaffe
- Kernwaffentest
- Kernwaffenversuch
Further reading
- “Kern”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (in German)
- “Kern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Kern” in Duden online
Kern on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
Noun
Kern m (plural Kerne, diminutive Kernche)Category:Hunsrik lemmas#KERNCategory:Hunsrik nouns#KERNCategory:Hunsrik entries with incorrect language header#KERNCategory:Hunsrik masculine nouns#KERNCategory:Pages with entries#KERNCategory:Pages with 5 entries#KERN
Further reading
- Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Kern”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kern m pers (female equivalent Kernová)Category:Slovak lemmas#KERNCategory:Slovak proper nouns#KERNCategory:Slovak entries with incorrect language header#KERNCategory:Slovak masculine nouns#KERNCategory:Slovak personal nouns#KERNCategory:Pages with entries#KERNCategory:Pages with 5 entries#KERN
Declension
Further reading
- “Kern”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026
Slovene
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kȇrn m animCategory:Slovene lemmas#KERNCategory:Slovene proper nouns#KERNCategory:Slovene masculine animate nouns#KERNCategory:Slovene entries with incorrect language header#KERNCategory:Slovene masculine nouns#KERNCategory:Slovene animate nouns#KERNCategory:Pages with entries#KERNCategory:Pages with 5 entries#KERN
Further reading
- “Kern”, in Statistični urad Republike Slovenije : Imena [Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia: Names] (in Slovene)

