hoorn

See also: Hoorn

Dutch

Alternative forms

• horen

Etymology

From Middle Dutch horn, from Old Dutch *horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-. Compare also horen, from the same origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦoːrn/, /ˈɦoːrə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: hoorn
• Rhymes: -oːrn

Noun

hoorn m (plural hoornen or hoorns, diminutive hoorntje n)

1. a horn (sound device) or a bugle
2. a horn (growth projecting from the head of some animals)
3. a receiver, an earphone

Derived terms

• alpenhoorn
• bokshoorn
• dikhoornschaap
• drinkhoorn
• eenhoorn
• hertshoorn
• hoornaar
• hoornbeest
• hoornblazer
• hoornbloem
• hoorndier
• hoorndrager
• hoornhoenderkoet
• hoornklaver
• hoornkoet
• hoornraaf
• hoornvee
• hoornvlies
• jachthoorn
• kinkhoorn
• koeien met gouden horens
• midwinterhoorn
• neushoorn
• onthoornen
• posthoorn
• telefoonhoorn
• voelhoorn

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: horing
• Berbice Creole Dutch: hurun, hurunu, hornu
• Negerhollands: horn

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English horn, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔːn/

Noun

hoorn

1. horn

Derived terms

• hoornta

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 47