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See also: Horn, hörn, Hörn, and hòrn

English

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
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Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nóm
Proto-Germanic *hurną
Proto-West Germanic *horn
Old English horn
Middle English horn
English horn

    From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).

    Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras), Proto-Slavic *sьrna, Old Church Slavonic сьрна (sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persian سر (sar), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn”). Doublet of corn (“callus”), corno, and cornu.

    (telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes.

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    horn (countable and uncountable, plural horns)

    This sheep has horns.
    A man playing a horn.
    2. (countable, zootomy) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
    3. Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
    5. An antler.
    7. (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
      Synonym: keratin
      an umbrella with a handle made of horn
    8. A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
      • 1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason.:
        horns of mead and ale
      • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 179:
        The one brought out a filled up horn.
      • 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 143:
        I guarantee you a mighty feast, horns of ale, and afterwards wrestling and racing and contests of strength.
    9. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
      1. One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon
      2. The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
        • 1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, Prairie Kid; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 51:
          Buck Saddler carried a rifle and a shotgun on the saddle, and two belts of cartridges slung over the horn.
      4. (architecture) The Ionic volute.
      5. (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
      6. (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
      7. One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
    10. (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
    12. (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
      hunting horn
    13. (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
      Synonyms: hooter, klaxon
    14. (chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
      The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
    15. (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
      Synonym: funnel
      antenna horn
      loudspeaker horn
    17. (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
    19. (slang, countable) A telephone.
      Synonyms: blower (UK), dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang), phone
      Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.
    21. (vulgar, slang, with definite article) An erection of the penis.
      Synonyms: boner (US), hard-on, stiffy
    23. (countable, geography) A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
      Synonym: peninsula
      to navigate around the horn
      • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
        But nowhere are there queerer waters than in our own parish of Caulds, at the place called the Sker Bay, where between two horns of land a shallow estuary receives the stream of the Sker.
    25. (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
    26. (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
    27. (military) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.

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    horn (third-person singular simple present horns, present participle horning, simple past and past participle horned)

    1. (transitive) Of an animal, to assault with the horns.
    2. (transitive) To furnish with horns.
    3. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cuckold.
    4. (intransitive, Singapore, India) To sound the horn of a motor vehicle; to honk.
      • (Can we date this quote by Rabia Sajal Niazi and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), His Precious Gem
        He horned five times but the man didn't moved [sic] his car away.

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    Cornish

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    Chemical element (edit)
    Fe
    Atomic number 26
    horn
    Classification data
    Period 4
    Group 8
    Block d-block
    Class transition metal
    Previous: ← manganes (Mn)
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    Cornish Wikipedia article on Horn

    Etymology 1

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    From Middle Cornish hôrn, from Old Cornish hoern, from Proto-Brythonic *həjarn, from Proto-Celtic *īsarnom (compare Welsh haearn, Breton houarn, Irish iarann), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood, red”).

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    horn m (uncountable)

    1. iron
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    Clipping of horn margh.

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    horn m (plural hern)

    1. horse shoe

    Danish

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      From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.

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      horn n (singular definite hornet, plural indefinite horn)

      1. horn

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      Declension of horn
      neuter
      gender       		singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative horn hornet horn hornene
      genitive horns hornets horns hornenes

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      Faroese

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        From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.

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        horn n (genitive singular horns, plural horn)

        1. horn (of an animal)
        2. (music) horn
        3. corner
        4. speaker (on a telephone)
        5. angle

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        n3 singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative horn hornið horn hornini
        accusative horn hornið horn hornini
        dative horni horninum hornum hornunum
        genitive horns hornsins horna hornanna

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        Icelandic

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          From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.

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          horn n (genitive singular horns, nominative plural horn)

          1. horn (of an animal)
          2. fin (of a cetacean or other marine animal)
          3. corner
          4. angle
          5. (music) horn

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          Declension of horn (neuter)
          singular plural
          indefinite definite indefinite definite
          nominative horn hornið horn hornin
          accusative horn hornið horn hornin
          dative horni horninu hornum hornunum
          genitive horns hornsins horna hornanna

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          Middle English

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          Etymology

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            From Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós (with change in gender).

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            horn (plural hornes)

            1. A horn (keratinous growth):
              1. Horn as a material or in crafts.
              2. (rare) The metaphorical horn of a cuckold.
              3. (rare, heraldry) A heraldic depiction of a horn.
            2. A projecting extremity or point:
              1. A point of a crescent moon.
              2. A point of a woman's hairstyle.
            3. A horn (musical instrument)
            4. A bodily extension, such as a claw.
            5. A horn-shaped container (especially as a glass)
            6. (rare) A section of an army or band.
            7. (rare) The eyestalk of a gastropod or an analogous projection.
            8. (rare, collectively) Horned bovids.
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            • English: horn
            • Scots: horn
            • Yola: hoorn

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            Norwegian Bokmål

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            Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
            Wikipedia no

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              From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.

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              • IPA(key): /huːrn/, [ˈhuːɳ]

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              horn n (definite singular hornet, indefinite plural horn, definite plural horna or hornene)

              1. (zoology) horn
              2. (music) horn
              3. (automotive, rail transport) horn (warning device)

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              Norwegian Nynorsk

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                From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.

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                horn n (definite singular hornet, indefinite plural horn, definite plural horna)

                1. (zoology) horn
                2. (music) horn
                3. (automotive, rail transport) horn (warning device)

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                Old English

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                  From Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn, head, top”).

                  Cognate with Old Frisian horn, Old Saxon horn, Old High German horn, Old Norse horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).

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                  horn m

                  1. horn
                  2. antler
                  3. (horn-shaped) gable

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                  Strong a-stem:

                  singular plural
                  nominative horn hornas
                  accusative horn hornas
                  genitive hornes horna
                  dative horne hornum

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                  Old High German

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                  Etymology

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                    From Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.

                    Cognates include also Old Saxon horn, Old English horn, Old Norse horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).

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                    horn n

                    1. horn

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                    • Middle High German: horn
                      • Central Franconian:
                        Hunsrik: Horn
                        Luxembourgish: Har
                      • Cimbrian: hòrn
                      • German: Horn
                      • Rhine Franconian:
                        Frankfurterisch: [hɔɐ̯n]
                      • Yiddish: האָרן (horn)

                    Old Norse

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                      From Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- or Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-. Cognates include Old English horn (English horn, Old Frisian horn (West Frisian hoarn), Old Saxon horn (Low German Hoorn, horn), Dutch hoorn, Old High German horn (German Horn), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).

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                      horn n (genitive horns, plural horn)

                      1. horn (of an animal)
                      2. horn (to drink from)
                      3. horn (musical instrument)
                      4. corner
                      5. angle

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                      Declension of horn (strong a-stem)
                      neuter singular plural
                      indefinite definite indefinite definite
                      nominative horn hornit horn hornin
                      accusative horn hornit horn hornin
                      dative horni horninu hornum hornunum
                      genitive horns hornsins horna hornanna

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                      • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “horn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

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                        From Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.

                        Cognates include also Old English horn, Old Frisian horn, Old High German horn, Old Norse horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).

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                        horn n

                        1. horn

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                        horn (neuter a-stem)
                        singular plural
                        nominative horn horn
                        accusative horn horn
                        genitive hornes hornō
                        dative horne hornun
                        instrumental — —

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                        Etymology

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                          From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.

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                          horn n

                          1. horn (of an animal)
                          2. horn (to drink from)
                          3. horn (musical instrument)
                          4. corner
                          5. angle

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                          Declension of horn (strong a-stem)
                          neuter singular plural
                          indefinite definite indefinite definite
                          nominative horn hornit horn hornin
                          accusative horn hornit horn hornin
                          dative horni, horne horninu, horneno hornum, hornom hornumin, hornomen
                          genitive horns hornsins horna hornanna

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                          Romanian

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                          Borrowed from Ukrainian горн (horn), from Proto-Slavic *gъrnъ.

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                          horn n (plural hornuri)

                          1. chimney
                            Synonyms: cămin, coș, fumar, hogeag

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                            From Old Swedish horn, Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.

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                            horn n

                            1. horn (growth on animals' heads)
                            2. horn (object shaped from or like an animal's horn, used for drinking, storage or making sounds)
                            3. horn (object that makes a sound, e.g. on a car)
                            4. (music) horn

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                            Declension of horn
                            nominative genitive
                            singular indefinite horn horns
                            definite hornet hornets
                            plural indefinite horn horns
                            definite hornen hornens
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