hoorn
See also: Hoorn
Dutch edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
hoorn m (plural hoornen or hoorns, diminutive hoorntje n)
- a horn (sound device) or a bugle
- a horn (growth projecting from the head of some animals)
- a receiver, an earphone
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English horn, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hoorn
Derived terms edit
References edit
- 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