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HERN
Definition of HERN
noun
Corner, nook.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English herne, hyrne, from Old English hyrne (“corner”), from Proto-Germanic *hurnijō, *hurnijǭ (“projecting point, corner, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Doublet of hirn. Further related to horn.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,595)
How it is built
Same root, HERN · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HERN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 100, 28 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 100, 28 August 2026.
Built from these letters
HERN starts with H and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EHNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HERN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HERN?
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