The word Unicorn is uni-corn, as in one corn(horn).

BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 22 points –

That means we could also use bicorn, tricorn, etc.

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The butterfly from The Last Unicorn told us this.

Is that why I'm getting downvoted? Tough crowd.

The post is in the positives so I think you're ok. If I had to guess on the downvotes though it's not really a groundbreaking discovery that uni-corn can be broken into two words like that.

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I always took unicorn as one word, I never thought about the uni part meaning one.