hoorn

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• horen (often proscribed)

Etymology

From Old Dutch *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną (compare Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, West Frisian hoarn, English horn, Danish and Swedish horn), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-. Compare also horen, from the same origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦoːrn/

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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

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Noun

hoorn

1. horn

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)