Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/herþ

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Germanic *herþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kérh₃-to-s, from *kerh₃- (“to burn; fire, heat”).[1]

Noun

*herþ m

hearth, fireplace

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*herþ
Genitive	*herþas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*herþ	herþō, herþōs
Accusative	*herþ	*herþā
Genitive	*herþas	*herþō
Dative	*herþē	*herþum
Instrumental	*herþu	*herþum

Descendants

Old English: heorþ
- Middle English: herth, harthe, heorð, heorþ, herthe, hertþ, herþ
  - English: hearth
  - Scots: harth, hairth
Old Frisian: herth, hirth
- Saterland Frisian: Herde, Heet, Häid
- West Frisian: hurd
Old Saxon: herth
- Middle Low German: herd, hērt
  - Low German: Heerd
  - → Swedish: härd
  - → Danish: herd
  - → Norwegian: herd (rare)
Old Dutch: *herth
- Middle Dutch: hert, heert, haert
  - Dutch: haard, heerd, (dialectal) herd
Old High German: herd
- Middle High German: hert
  - Cimbrian: hèart
  - German: Herd
  - Luxembourgish: Häerd

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN