horn
Middle English
/ˈhɔrn/
noun
Definitions
- A horn keratinous growth on one's head:
- A jutting or projecting extremity of something, especially one resembling a horn:
- A horn gently curved musical instrument
- Any other hard bodily extension in humans or beasts (e.g. a claw)
- A horn-shaped container, especially one used like a glass.
- (rare) A half or section of an army, troop, or band.
- (rare) The eyestalk of a gastropod or an analogous projection.
- (rare) Bovids which are horned as a collective.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English horn (horn) inherited from *horn inherited from Proto-Germanic *hurną (horn) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱr̥h₂nós
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hornbeam English
- horned English
- hornen English
- horner English
- horning English
- inkhorn English
- *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱerh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱr̥h₂nós Proto-Indo-European
- *hurną Proto-Germanic
- anhorn Old English
- horn Old English
- hornblawere Old English
- hornbære Old English
- hornreced Old English
- hyrned Old English
- hyrnen Old English
- horn, horne Middle English
- horned Middle English
- hornen Middle English
- hornepipe Middle English
- horner Middle English
- hornyng Middle English
- pipe Middle English
- ynke Middle English
- ynkhorn Middle English
- orneallo Galician
- ornear Galician
- orneón Galician
- horn Old High German
- 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 Gothic
- *horn gmw-pro
- *horn Old Dutch
- horn Old Saxon
- horn Old Frisian
- ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ Proto-Norse