Word Origin Summary

Horn is attested in Middle Dutch. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• horing

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• hoorn

  Dutch · inherited from

• Hordijkerveld

  Dutch · inherited from

• Giethoorn

  Dutch · inherited from

• Den Hoorn

  Dutch · inherited from

• Hoornseveld

  Dutch · inherited from

• Schermerhorn

  Dutch · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root