HORNET - Definition & Meaning for Kids
Meaning 1
Part of speech: Noun
large stinging paper wasp
Categories: Vespid, Vespid wasp
📖 Fun Facts About Hornet
- • Hornets are a type of wasp.
Synonyms
🌱 Word Origin (Etymology)
The word "hornet" comes from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂sro-. It started in Proto-Germanic *hursulǭ. Then it appeared in Proto-Germanic *hurznutō. Later, people used it in Old English hyrnetu. After that, it was Middle English hernet. Many other languages have similar words:.
- German: Hornisse
- Dutch: horzel
- Welsh: creyryn
- Latin: crābrō
- Lithuanian: širšė
- Old Church Slavonic: сръшень
- Albanian: grerë
🧩 Fun Fact
Each language in this chain added phonetic changes that transformed the original sound.