Horn
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]the Horn
- Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.
- Sailing around the Horn was an arduous journey for sailing ships.
- The Horn of Africa, a peninsula of Africa which juts into the Arabian Sea.
- 1978, War in the Horn of Africa, report of the United States Fact-Finding Mission to Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya, page 4:
- At the same time, it would be erroneous to exaggerate U.S. interests, to overreact to political developments in the Horn, or to adopt imprudent policies based on emotional reactions to Soviet and Cuban involvement.
- 1998, John Markakis, Resource conflict in the Horn of Africa, page 185:
- […] countries fail to explore the possibilities of producing other crops of high value and demand in the Horn or elsewhere.
- 2001, Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi, Culture and Customs of Somalia, →ISBN, page 8:
- The word Somali itself today refers to any inhabitant of Somalia; it also refers to any person of ethnic Somali origin in the Horn or elsewhere.
- 2012, Peter Woodward, Crisis In The Horn of Africa, →ISBN, page 39:
- Although major coups had taken off in the Arab world in Egypt in 1952, this was the first coup in the Horn or indeed in post-independence Africa.
- 1978, War in the Horn of Africa, report of the United States Fact-Finding Mission to Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya, page 4:
Synonyms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Horn (countable and uncountable, plural Horns)
- A surname.
- A former civil parish in Rutland, England, abolished in 2016 on the formation of Exton and Horn parish.
- An unincorporated community in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States.
Derived terms
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[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested as hurne in 1102. Derived from the dative singular form of Old Dutch horn (“protruding bend, corner”).
See also Limburgish Häör.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Horn n
- A village and former municipality of Leudal, Limburg, Netherlands.
References
[edit]- van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German horn, from Old High German horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.
Compare Low German Horn, Hoorn, Hurn; Höärn (Altmärkisch); Häörn (Haön) (Münsterländisch), Dutch hoorn, English horn, Danish horn and Swedish horn.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /hɔrn/, [hɔʁn], [hɔɐ̯n], [hɔːn]
- Rhymes: -ɔʁn
Audio: (file) - Rhymes with: Dorn, Korn, vorn, Zorn
Noun
[edit]Horn n (strong, genitive Hornes or Horns, plural Hörner, diminutive Hörnchen n or Hörnlein n)
- horn (musical instrument)
- horn (projection, of an animal, altar, etc.)
- cornet
- (anatomy) cranial parietal bones
Declension
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Horn n (strong, genitive Hornes or Horns, plural Horne)
- horn (substance from which animal horns are made)
Related terms
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Horn m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Horns or (with an article) Horn, feminine genitive Horn, plural Horns)
- a surname
Proper noun
[edit]Horn n (proper noun, genitive Horns or (optionally with an article) Horn)
- A city in Lippe district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Coordinate term: Bad Meinberg (same municipality)
- A municipality of Lower Austria, Austria
- A municipality of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
- A municipality of Switzerland
Further reading
[edit]- “Horn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Horn” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Horn” in Duden online
Horn on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Horn” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Horn
- a surname
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Horn | Hornok |
accusative | Hornt | Hornokat |
dative | Hornnak | Hornoknak |
instrumental | Hornnal | Hornokkal |
causal-final | Hornért | Hornokért |
translative | Hornná | Hornokká |
terminative | Hornig | Hornokig |
essive-formal | Hornként | Hornokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Hornban | Hornokban |
superessive | Hornon | Hornokon |
adessive | Hornnál | Hornoknál |
illative | Hornba | Hornokba |
sublative | Hornra | Hornokra |
allative | Hornhoz | Hornokhoz |
elative | Hornból | Hornokból |
delative | Hornról | Hornokról |
ablative | Horntól | Hornoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Horné | Hornoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Hornéi | Hornokéi |
Possessive forms of Horn | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Hornom | Hornjaim |
2nd person sing. | Hornod | Hornjaid |
3rd person sing. | Hornja | Hornjai |
1st person plural | Hornunk | Hornjaink |
2nd person plural | Hornotok | Hornjaitok |
3rd person plural | Hornjuk | Hornjaik |
See also
[edit]- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- en:Unincorporated communities in Nebraska, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Nebraska, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɔrn
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɔrn/1 syllable
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch neuter nouns
- nl:Villages in Limburg, Netherlands
- nl:Villages in the Netherlands
- nl:Historical political subdivisions
- nl:Places in Limburg, Netherlands
- nl:Places in the Netherlands
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German terms inherited from Old High German
- German terms derived from Old High German
- German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- German 1-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:German/ɔʁn
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German neuter nouns
- de:Anatomy
- German proper nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German feminine nouns
- German nouns with multiple genders
- German surnames
- de:Cities in North Rhine-Westphalia
- de:Cities in Germany
- de:Places in North Rhine-Westphalia
- de:Places in Germany
- de:Municipalities of Lower Austria
- de:Places in Lower Austria
- de:Places in Austria
- de:Municipalities of Germany
- de:Places in Rhineland-Palatinate
- de:Municipalities of Switzerland
- de:Places in Switzerland
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/orn
- Rhymes:Hungarian/orn/1 syllable
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian proper nouns
- Hungarian surnames