Etymograph

English

cornet

Cornet comes from Latin cornū ‘horn’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱerh₂-‘horn’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱorh₂ureconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kornū‘horn’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcornū‘horn’
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400cornet
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500cornet‘a cornet’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1702–1704cornet

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱerh₂-‘horn’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱorh₂ureconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kornū‘horn’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcornū‘horn’
  5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400cornet
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500cornet‘a cornet’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1702–1704cornet

Earliest quotation: 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, Begun in the Year 1641. […]: “They discerned a body of five cornets of horse…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- ‘horn’

cheer, hart, cerebral, crater, horn, grail, migraine, carotid, procrastinate, cerebellum, cranium, cairn, keratin, cerebrum, rother, 53 more

through Latin cornū ‘horn’

corny, 23 more

Another origin of cornet

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱerh₂-‘horn’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱorh₂ureconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kornū‘horn’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcornū̆as cornua‘horns’
  5. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600cornette
  6. Englishtodaycornet

Today it means

noun A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- / cornet

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