Harz

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Harz.

Proper noun

Harz

A mountain range in Northern Germany; its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.

Translations

mountain range

Armenian: Հարց (Harcʿ)
German: Harz (de)
Hungarian: Harz (hu)
Russian: Гарц (ru) (Garc), Харц (Xarc)

German

Etymology 1

From Middle High German harz, from Old High German harz(uh), from Proto-West Germanic *hart (“pitch, resin”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /haːrts/, [haːʁt͡s], [haːɐ̯t͡s], [haːt͡s]

Noun

Harz n (strong, genitive Harzes, plural Harze)

resin

Declension

Declension of Harz [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Harz	die	Harze
genitive	eines	des	Harzes	der	Harze
dative	einem	dem	Harz, Harze¹	den	Harzen
accusative	ein	das	Harz	die	Harze

¹Now uncommon, see notes.

Hyponyms

Bienenharz, Baumharz, Epoxidharz, Fichtenharz, Kiefernharz, Kunstharz, Tannenharz

Derived terms

harzen
harzig
harzartig

Related terms

Harzöl
Harztropfen

Etymology 2

From Middle High German Hardt, Hart (“hill forest”), from Old High German hart (“forest, wood”, literally “hard”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /harts/, [haʁt͡s], [haɐ̯t͡s], [haːt͡s]

Proper noun

Harz m (proper noun, strong, genitive Harzes or Harz)

Harz (a mountain range in central Germany)

References

The Standard Dictionary of Facts: History, Language, Literature, Biography, Geography, Travel, Art, Government, Politics, Industry, Invention, Commerce, Science, Education, Natural History, Statistics and Miscellany, p. 819
Kroonen, Guus (2013), “harta-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Harz

English

Etymology

Proper noun

Translations

German

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Proper noun

References

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