Etymology
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From Middle English auntelere , hauntelere , from Old French antoillier ( “ antler, horn ” ) , from ante- ( “ in front of ” ) + oillier (oil ( “ eye ” ) + -ier (a suffix indicating location )), possibly from an unattested Latin *anteocularis ( “ before the eye ” ) .
Pronunciation
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Antlers.
antler (plural antlers )
A deciduous branching and bony structure on the head of deer , moose and elk , normally in pairs. They are grown and shed each year. (Compare with horn , which is generally not shed.)
While hiking in the woods, I found an antler from a deer.
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Translations
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bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk
Albanian: bri (sq) sg , brinj pl
Armenian: եղջյուր (hy) ( eġǰyur )
Belarusian: рог m ( roh )
Bulgarian: еленов рог m ( elenov rog ) , рог (bg) m ( rog )
Burmese: ချို (my) ( hkyui )
Catalan: banya (ca) f
Central Sierra Miwok: kíl·i-
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鹿角 (zh) ( lùjiǎo ) , 角 (zh) ( jiǎo )
Czech: paroh (cs) m
Danish: gevir n ( pair of antlers )
Dutch: gewei (nl) n
Esperanto: ramuro
Finnish: sarvi (fi) , sarvikruunu ( pair )
French: bois (fr) m , andouiller (fr) m
Galician: corno (gl) m
Georgian: ქორბუდა ( korbuda ) , რქა ( rka )
German: Geweih (de) n
Greenlandic: nassuk
Guaraní: tatĩ
Hungarian: agancs (hu)
Icelandic: horn (is) n
Indonesian: tanduk (id)
Interlingua: corno (de cervideos )
Irish: beann f
Italian: corno (it) sg , corna (it) pl , corno ramificato , palco (it) m
Japanese: 角 (ja) ( つの, tsuno )
Korean: (please verify ) 뿔 (ko) ( ppul ) , (please verify ) 가지진 뿔 ( gajijin ppul )
Latin: cornu (rāmōsum ) n
Macedonian: роговје n ( rogovje ) , рог m ( rog )
Maori: maire
Northern Sami: čoarvi
Norwegian: horn (no) n
Bokmål: gevir n (pair of antlers )
Nynorsk: gevir n (pair )
Occitan: còrn (oc) m , bana (oc) f
Old English: horn (ang) m
Old Norse: horn n
Polish: róg (pl) m inan , ( collective ) poroże (pl) n
Portuguese: chifre (pt) m , corno (de cervídeos ) m , galhada (pt) f
Romanian: corn (ro) sg , coarne (ro) pl
Russian: рог (ru) m ( rog ) , рог (ru) m pl ( rog ) , олений рог m ( olenij rog )
Scottish Gaelic: cabar m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: рог m
Roman: rog (sh) m
Slovak: paroh m
Slovene: rogovi m pl
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: rog m
Spanish: cornamenta (es) f , asta (es) f , cuerno (es) m
Swahili: pembe-tawi
Swedish: horn (sv) n , krona (sv) c , hjorthorn (sv) n , älghorn (sv) n
Turkish: boynuz (tr)
Ukrainian: ріг (uk) m ( rih )
Volapük: tuigahon
Welsh: corn (cy) m , ( archaic ) rhaidd f
Zazaki: qoçêkosbes , qoç
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