kernel: [OE] Etymologically, a kernel is a ‘little seed’. Old English corn, ancestor of modern English corn, meant ‘seed, grain’, and its diminutive form cyrnel was applied to ‘pips’ (now obsolete), to ‘seeds’ (a sense which now survives only in the context of cereals), and to the ‘inner part of nuts, fruit stones, etc’. => corn
kernel (n.)
Old English cyrnel "seed, kernel, pip," from Proto-Germanic *kurnilo- (cognates: Middle High German kornel, Middle Dutch cornel), from the root of corn "seed, grain" (see corn (n.1)) + -el, diminutive suffix. Figurative sense of "core or central part of anything" is from 1550s.
例文
1. Each corn kernel will make a loud pop when cooked.
トウモロコシの粒ごとに調理時に大きな音がします。
2.The kernel of his problem is lack of money.
彼の問題の核心はお金が足りないことだ。
3.The nutshell includes the kernel .
殻がナッツを包む。
4.You will need to have the kernel sources and the development environment installed!
kernel リソースを持って開発環境をインストールする必要があります!
5.The kernel of that message was that peace must not be a source of advantage or disad-vantage for anyone.