hoorn
See also: Hoorn
DutchEdit
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EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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
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DescendantsEdit
YolaEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English horn, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn.
NounEdit
hoorn
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ReferencesEdit
- Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 47