köken: From Middle High German horniz, hornuz, from Old High German hurniz, hornuz, hornaz, from Proto-West Germanic *hurnutu. Cognate Dutch hoorn, hoorntje, English hornet.
köken: Possibly from a Vulgar Latin form *carabriōnem, from Latin crābrōnem, from Proto-Italic *krāzrō, from a Proto-Indo-European form *krH-s-r-o, from the root *ḱerh₂- (“head”).
köken: From Proto-Finnic *herhiläinen (compare Estonian herilane (“wasp”)), borrowed from Proto-Baltic *śirˀšṓ (compare Lithuanian širšė) and derived with *-läinen.