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: Superficially bål (“bole”) + geting (“wasp”). The first compound is rather from archaic adjective *bol (“large; great”), from the same origin as bål (“stem; trunk”).
köken: From Proto-Finnic *herhiläinen (compare Estonian herilane (“wasp”)), borrowed from Proto-Baltic *śirˀšṓ (compare Lithuanian širšė) and derived with *-läinen.
köken: From Old Czech sršen, from Proto-Slavic *sьrxy (stem *sьršen-), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śirˀšṓ, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂s-. Cognate with Lithuanian širšė, Latin crābrō, English hornet.
köken: From Proto-Germanic *wepsō-, from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“weave”). Compare Norwegian Bokmål veps, Norwegian Nynorsk kvefs, Latin vespa.
köken: From Proto-Slavic *sьrxy (stem *sьršen-), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śirˀšṓ, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂s-. Cognate with Lithuanian širšė, Latin crābrō, English hornet.