hoorn

See also: Hoorn

Dutch

Alternative forms

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/
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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

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

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Etymology

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

Noun

hoorn

  1. horn

Derived terms

References
  • 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
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