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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hertā
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hertô.
Noun
*hertā n[1]
- heart
Inflection
Neuter an-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *hertā | |
Genitive | *hertini, *hertan | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *hertā | *hertōn |
Accusative | *hertā | *hertōn |
Genitive | *hertini, *hertan | *hertanō |
Dative | *hertini, *hertan | *hertum |
Instrumental | *hertini, *hertan | *hertum |
Derived terms
- *hirtijan
Descendants
- Old English: heorte, hearte, hiorte
- Middle English: herte, hart, harte, heorte, hert, hertt, hirte, huerte; heortæ, heorrte, herrte, hierte, horte, hurte
- English: heart (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: hert, hart, hairt
- Yola: hearth, hart
- Middle English: herte, hart, harte, heorte, hert, hertt, hirte, huerte; heortæ, heorrte, herrte, hierte, horte, hurte
- Old Frisian: herte, hirte
- Saterland Frisian: Haat
- West Frisian: hert
- Old Saxon: herta, herte
- Middle Low German: herte, harte
- Low German: Hart, Hiärt
- German Low German: Hart
- Plautdietsch: Hoat
- Middle Low German: herte, harte
- Old Dutch: herta
- Middle Dutch: herte
- Dutch: hart
- Afrikaans: hart
- Limburgish: hert
- West Flemish: erte
- Dutch: hart
- Middle Dutch: herte
- Old High German: herza
- Middle High German: hërze, hërz
- Alemannic German: Härz
- Bavarian:
- Cimbrian: hèrtz, hèertze
- Mòcheno: hèrz
- Central Franconian: Hätz, Hetz; Hatz; Herz; Hearz, Häerz
- Hunsrik: Herz
- German: Herz
- Luxembourgish: Häerz
- Silesian German: Herze/ Härze(Breslauisch) / Harze n
- ⇒ Silesian German: / harzlich
- Vilamovian: haoc
- Yiddish: האַרץ (harts)
- Middle High German: hërze, hërz
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 59: “PWGmc *hertā”