Where does “horn” come from?
Horn descends from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic horn, from Proto-Germanic hurną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱerh₂-.
horn (English): A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the...
Definitions
- A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the...
Ancestry of “horn”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | horn | A horn; A jutting or projecting extremity of... |
| 2 | Old English | horn | horn; gable |
| 3 | Proto-West Germanic | horn | horn |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | hurną | horn |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |