hearth

English

Etymology

From Middle English herth, herthe, from Old English heorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *herþ, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“heat; fire”). Cognate with West Frisian hurd, Dutch haard, German Herd, Swedish härd.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɑːθ/
(General American) IPA^(key): /hɑɹθ/
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(obsolete, dialectal) IPA^(key): /hɜːɹθ/, /hæθ/[1]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)θ

Noun

hearth (plural hearths)

The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
cooking on an open hearth
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
  When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
(figurative) Home or family life.
(Germanic paganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.
- 1996, Vivianne Crowley, Thorsons principles of paganism, page 50:
  Asatru is practised all over Northern Europe and also in North America. Like Druidry, it is organized into bodies with sub-groups, the hearths.
- 2003 December 8, Robert J. Wallis, Shamans/neo-Shamans: Ecstasy, Alternative Archaeologies, and Contemporary Pagans‎, page 102:
  Smaller localized groups known as 'hearths' meet regularly, and are comparable, in size and function, with a Wiccan 'Coven' or Druidic 'Grove'.
- 2004 March 1, Peter Clarke, editor, Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements‎, Routledge, page 768:
  Neopagan groups take many forms, from Wiccan covens to Druid groves, from Heathen hearths to magical lodges […]

Derived terms

hearth and home
hearthflame
hearthful
hearthless
hearthlike
hearthrug
hearthside
hearthstead
hearthstone
hearth tax
hearthward

Translations

floor of fireplace

Albanian: vatër (sq) f
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: օջախ (hy) (ōǰax)
Aromanian: vatrã, veatrã
Basque: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: ача́г (be) m (ačáh), гарно́ n (harnó)
Breton: oaled (br) f
Bulgarian: огнище (bg) n (ognište)
Catalan: llar (ca) f, llar de foc (ca) f, foc a terra m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 爐床／炉床 (zh) (lúchuáng), 爐邊／炉边 (zh) (lúbiān)
Cornish: oles f
Czech: ohniště (cs) n
Dutch: haard (nl) m
Esperanto: fajrujo
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: tulipesän pohja
French: âtre (fr) m, foyer (fr) m
Friulian: fogolâr m
Galician: lar (gl) m, lareira (gl) f
Georgian: კერა (ka) (ḳera)
German: Feuerstelle (de) f, Herdboden m, Grund (de) m, Kaminboden m
Greek: τζάκι (el) n (tzáki)
Ancient: ἐσχάρα f (eskhára)
Hebrew: אח‎ (he) m (akh)
Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
Indonesian: perapian (id)
Italian: focolare (it) m
Japanese: 囲炉裏 (ja) (いろり, irori)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 부뚜막 (ko) (buttumak), 난로(煖爐) (ko) (nallo)
Latin: focus m
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Nepali: भट्टा (bhaṭṭā)
Norman: fouoyi m
Norwegian: herd (no)
Old English: heorþ m
Persian: گلخن‎ (fa) (golxan), اجاق‎ (fa) (ojāq)
Polish: palenisko (pl) m
Portuguese: lar (pt) m
Romanian: vatră (ro) f
Russian: оча́г (ru) m (očág), печу́рка (ru) f (pečúrka), под (ru) m (pod)
Spanish: hogar (es) m, lar (es) m, solera (es) f, fogón (es) m
Swahili: meko (sw)
Swedish: härd (sv) c
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Tocharian B: śoliye
Turkish: ocak (tr)
Ukrainian: во́гнище (uk) n (vóhnyšče)
Venetian: fogołaro m
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: aelwyd f

fireplace — see fireplace

part of furnace

Czech: výheň (cs) f
Finnish: pesä (fi)
German: Feuerstelle (de) f, Gestell (de) n in einem Hochofen (de) n
Hebrew: קמין‎ (he) m (kamin), אח‎ (he) m (akh)
Italian: focolare (it) m, letto della fornace
Russian: дно (ru) n (dno), под (ru) m (pod), поди́на (ru) f (podína), ле́щадь (ru) f (léščadʹ)
Spanish: crisol (es), solera (es) f
Swedish: härd (sv)

home or family life

Armenian: օջախ (hy) (ōǰax)
Catalan: llar (ca) f
Czech: rodinný krb m, domácí krb
Finnish: kotiliesi
French: foyer (fr) m, foyers (fr) m pl
Galician: fogar (gl) m, lar (gl) m
German: Herd (de) m, Herdstelle f, Kochstelle f, Feuerstelle (de) f
Italian: ^{(please verify)} focolare domestico m
Latin: focus m
Norman: fouoyi m
Polish: ognisko domowe (pl) n
Portuguese: lar (pt) m, fogo (pt) m
Russian: семе́йный оча́г (ru) m (seméjnyj očág), дома́шний оча́г m (domášnij očág)
Spanish: hogar (es) m, llar m, patria (es) f (of a nation)
Swedish: härd (sv)
Turkish: ocak (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 壁爐邊／壁炉边, ^{(please verify)} 壁炉边
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} vatră (ro)

References

Stanley, Oma (1937), “I. Vowel Sounds in Stressed Syllables”, in The Speech of East Texas (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2), New York: Columbia University Press, DOI:10.7312/stan90028, →ISBN, § 7, page 19.

Anagrams

Hertha

Yola

Alternative forms

hart

Etymology

From Middle English herte, from Old English heorte, from Proto-West Germanic *hertā.

Noun

hearth

heart
Synonym: core

Derived terms

hearthilee

References

Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 45

[1] Stanley, Oma (1937), “I. Vowel Sounds in Stressed Syllables”, in The Speech of East Texas (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2), New York: Columbia University Press, DOI:10.7312/stan90028, →ISBN, § 7, page 19.