Horn

See also: horn, hörn, Hörn, and hòrn

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

the Horn

1. Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.

   Sailing around the Horn was an arduous journey for sailing ships.

2. 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.

Synonyms

• Horn peninsula
• Horn of Africa
• Horn region

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Horn (countable and uncountable, plural Horns)

1. A surname.
2. A former civil parish in Rutland, England, abolished in 2016 on the formation of Exton and Horn parish.
3. An unincorporated community in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States.

Derived terms

• Exton and Horn

Anagrams

• NRHO, Rohn

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦorn]

Proper noun

Horn m anim (female equivalent Hornová)

1. a male surname from German

Declension

Declension of Horn (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Horn	Hornové
genitive	Horna	Hornů
dative	Hornovi	Hornům
accusative	Horna	Horny
vocative	Horne	Hornové
locative	Hornovi	Hornech
instrumental	Hornem	Horny

Further reading

• “Horn”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Dutch

Etymology

First attested as hurne in 1102. Derived from the dative singular form of Old Dutch horn (“protruding bend, corner”).

See also Limburgish Häör.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦɔrn/
• Hyphenation: Horn
• Rhymes: -ɔrn

Proper noun

Horn n

1. A village and former municipality of Leudal, Limburg, Netherlands

References

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

German

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /hɔrn/, [hɔʁn], [hɔɐ̯n], [hɔːn]
• Rhymes: -ɔʁn

• Audio:

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• Rhymes with: Dorn, Korn, vorn, Zorn

Noun

Horn n (strong, genitive Hornes or Horns, plural Hörner, diminutive Hörnchen n or Hörnlein n)

1. horn (musical instrument)
2. horn (projection, of an animal, altar, etc.)
3. cornet
4. (anatomy) cranial parietal bones

Declension

Declension of Horn [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Horn	die	Hörner
genitive	eines	des	Hornes, Horns	der	Hörner
dative	einem	dem	Horn, Horne1	den	Hörnern
accusative	ein	das	Horn	die	Hörner

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Alphorn
• Gehörn
• hörnen
• Jagdhorn
• Krummhorn
• Rufhorn
• Trinkhorn
• Waldhorn

 

Related terms

• Hörnle
• Hörnli

Descendants

• → Russian: горн (gorn)
  • → Romanian: goarnă
• → Ukrainian: горн (horn)

Noun

Horn n (strong, genitive Hornes or Horns, plural Horne)

1. horn (substance from which animal horns are made)

Related terms

• Hornhaut

Proper noun

Horn m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Horns or (with an article) Horn, feminine genitive Horn, plural Horns)

1. a surname

Proper noun

Horn n (proper noun, genitive Horns or (optionally with an article) Horn)

1. A city in Lippe district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

   Coordinate term: Bad Meinberg (same municipality)

2. A municipality of Lower Austria, Austria
3. A municipality of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4. A municipality of Switzerland

Further reading

• “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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhorn]
• Rhymes: -orn

Proper noun

Horn

1. a surname

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	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
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

• Appendix:Hungarian surnames