hirn

Meaning

Noun

• Corner; nook; hiding-place

Origin

• From Middle English hirne, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-West Germanic *hurnijā, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-. Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ is a diminutive form of *hurną, from which comes English horn. Cognate with Old Frisian herne ("horn, corner, angle"), Old Norse hyrna ("corner"), Norwegian Bokmål hjørne ("corner") (Bokmål), Norwegian Nynorsk hyrna ("corner") (Nynorsk), Icelandic hyrna ("point of an axehead, mountain peak"). More at horn.