Where does “unhorned” come from?
unhorned (English) comes from English horned, from Middle English horned, from Middle English horn, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic horn, from Proto-Germanic hurną, from Proto-Indo-European ḱer-, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥- — army.
unhorned (English): Without horns
Ancestry of “unhorned”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | horned | Having horns; cuckolded; simple past tense and... |
| 2 | Middle English | horned | Possessing horns or a similar projection; horned... |
| 3 | Middle English | horn | A horn; A jutting or projecting extremity of... |
| 4 | Old English | horn | horn; gable |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | horn | horn |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | hurną | horn |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |