hoorn
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/
audio (file)
Noun
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
Yola
Noun
hoorn
- 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)