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cornmeal

noun
/ˈkɔɹnˌmil/US/ˈkɔːnˌmiːl/UK

Etymology

From corn + meal.

  1. derived from *meh₁-✻ — “to measure”
  2. inherited from *mēlą✻
  3. inherited from *māl✻
  4. inherited from mǣl — “measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal”
  5. inherited from mel
  6. compounded as cornmeal — “corn + meal”

Definitions

  1. Dried corn (maize) milled (ground) to a meal, especially a coarse one.

    • She made a kind of polenta from cornmeal and chicken broth, with some cheese sprinkled on top.

  2. Any cereal grain meal or flour.

The neighborhood

Derived

cornmealy

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cornmeal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cornmeal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at cornmeal

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA