horn – English noun declension

English noun forms of horn

Noun: horn
Singularhorn
Pluralhorns

Sample Sentences

  • an umbrella with a handle made of horn
  • horns of mead and ale [1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason.:]
  • The one brought out a filled up horn. [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 179:]
  • I guarantee you a mighty feast, horns of ale, and afterwards wrestling and racing and contests of strength. [2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 143:]
  • [W]hile riſing ſlow, / Blank, in the leaden-colour'd eaſt, the moon / Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns. [a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 169, lines 123–125:]
  • Joab […] caught hold on the horns of the altar [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 2:28:]
  • hunting horn
  • The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
  • antenna horn
  • loudspeaker horn
  • Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.
  • to navigate around the horn
  • But nowhere are there queerer waters than in our own parish of Caulds, at the place called the Sker Bay, where between two horns of land a shallow estuary receives the stream of the Sker. [1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
4. ?
5. Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-der.
6. Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m
7. Proto-Germanic *hurną
8. Proto-West Germanic *horn
9. Old English horn
10. Middle English horn
11. English horn
12. From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
13. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras), Proto-Slavic *sьrna, Old Church Slavonic сьрна (sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persian سر (sar), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn”). Doublet of corn (“callus”), corno, and cornu.
14. (telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes. See: Middle English Nouns 'horn, horne', Old English Nouns 'horn', Dutch Nouns 'hoorn', German Nouns 'Horn', Swedish Nouns 'horn', Gothic Nouns '𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽', Latin Nouns 'cornū', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κέρας'.

Verbs referencing "horn"

Old Norse Nouns horn, Latin Nouns cornu, German Nouns Horn, Russian Nouns корова, English Nouns surla, English Nouns zurna, Latvian Nouns stirna.