Where does “cornmeal” come from?
Cornmeal derives from English corn and English meal, with meal tracing through English mole, English moll, English Moll, and English Mary back to Latin cornu and Proto-Indo-European ǵerh₂- and mel-.
cornmeal (English): Dried corn milled to a coarse meal
Definitions
- Dried corn milled to a coarse meal
Ancestry of “cornmeal”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | meal | Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a... |
| 2 | English | molé | Alternative spelling of mole |
| 3 | English | Moll | — |
| 4 | English | mary | A male homosexual |
| 5 | French | marie | first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 6 | Old French | Marie | — |
| 7 | Latin | Marīa | — |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | Μαρία | — |
| 9 | Hebrew | מִרְיָם | — |
| 10 | Aramaic | מרים | bitter |
| 11 | Biblical Hebrew | מִרְיָם | — |
Words derived from “cornmeal”