I see a reference by Sokoloff to The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary's Akkadian
QARNU as "an excrescense on the head." But I don't have the context of the
statement, which might indicate whether this was a skin growth or a more
conventional "horn".
Ken
> But it does look to me as if the data from other languages
> suggests the meaning "horn". Cognates are found in Akkadian, Arabic,
> Ethiopic, Phoenician and Aramaic ...