French horn

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A coiled brass musical instrument, derived from the French hunting horn, which has rotary valves.
    — Using the “endangered species” model employed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, campaigners are highlighting the scarcity of bassoonists and paving the way for the promotion of some other orchestral instruments that are under threat, such as the oboe, French horn, viola, trombone and double bass.

词形变化

French horns plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *frankô
Proto-West Germanic *Frankō
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Proto-West Germanic *Frankisk
Old English Frencisċder.
Middle English Frensch
English French
English horn
English French horn
From French + horn.
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