antler

See also: Antler

English

Etymology

From Middle English auntelere, hauntelere, from Old French antoillier (“antler, horn”), from ante- (“in front of”) +‎ oillier (oil (“eye”) +‎ -ier (a suffix indicating location)), possibly from an unattested Latin *anteocularis (“before the eye”).

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈænt.lɚ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈænt.lə/
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Noun

antler (plural antlers)

A branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs. They are grown and shed each year. (Compare with horn, which is generally not shed.)
While hiking in the woods, I found an antler from a deer.

Derived terms

Antlers (place name)

Translations

bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk

Albanian: bri (sq) sg, brinj pl
Armenian: եղջյուր (hy) (ełǰyur)
Belarusian: рог m (roh)
Bulgarian: еленов рог m (elenov rog), рог (bg) m (rog)
Burmese: ချို (my) (hkyui)
Central Sierra Miwok: kíl·i-
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鹿角 (zh) (lùjiǎo), 角 (zh) (jiǎo)
Czech: paroh (cs) m
Danish: gevir n (pair of antlers)
Dutch: gewei (nl) n
Finnish: sarvi (fi), sarvikruunu (pair)
French: bois (fr) m, andouiller (fr) m
Galician: corno (gl) m
Georgian: ქორბუდა (korbuda), რქა (rka)
German: Geweih (de) n
Greenlandic: nassuk
Hungarian: agancs (hu)
Indonesian: tanduk (id)
Interlingua: corno (de cervideos)
Italian: corno (it) sg, corna (it) pl, corno ramificato, palco (it) m
Japanese: 角 (ja) (つの, tsuno)

Korean: ^{(please verify)} 뿔 (ko) (ppul), ^{(please verify)} 가지진 뿔 (gajijin ppul)
Macedonian: роговје n (rogovje), рог m (rog)
Maori: maire
Northern Sami: čoarvi
Norwegian: horn (no) n
Bokmål: gevir n (pair of antlers)
Nynorsk: gevir n (pair)
Occitan: còrn (oc) m, bana (oc) f
Polish: róg (pl) m inan, (collective) poroże (pl) n
Portuguese: chifre (pt) m, corno (de cervídeos) m, galhada (pt) f
Romanian: corn (ro) sg, coarne pl
Russian: рог (ru) m (rog), рог (ru) m pl (rog), олений рог m (olenij rog)
Scottish Gaelic: cabar m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: рог m
Roman: rog (sh) m
Slovak: paroh m
Slovene: rogovi m pl
Spanish: cornamenta (es) f, asta (es) f, cuerno (es) m
Swahili: pembe-tawi
Swedish: horn (sv) n, krona (sv) c, hjorthorn (sv) n, älghorn (sv) n
Ukrainian: ріг m (rih)

Anagrams

Lenart, altern, learnt, rental, ternal