ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ
Proto-Norse
FWOTD – 5 September 2019
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn), Old English horn, more distantly with Latin cornū, Sanskrit शृङ्ग (ṡṛṅga, “horn”), Old Church Slavonic сръна (srŭna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”)[script needed].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhor.nɑ/
Noun
ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna) n
- horn
- c. 5th century, inscription on the Golden Horns of Gallehus:
- ᛖᚲᚺᛚᛖᚹᚨᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ᛬ᚺᛟᛚᛏᛁᛃᚨᛉ᛬ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ᛬ᛏᚨᚹᛁᛞᛟ᛬
- I, Hlewagastiz Holtijaz, made [the] horn
- c. 5th century, inscription on the Golden Horns of Gallehus:
Descendants
- Old Norse: horn
- Icelandic: horn
- Faroese: horn
- Norn: honnj
- Norwegian Nynorsk: horn, (dialectal) hønn
- Old Swedish: horn
- Swedish: horn
- Danish: horn
- Norwegian Bokmål: horn