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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/herþ
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 | ||
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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
- Middle English: herth, harthe, heorð, heorþ, herthe, hertþ, herþ
- 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)
- Middle Low German: herd, hērt
- Old Dutch: *herth
- Middle Dutch: hert, heert, haert
- Dutch: haard, heerd, (dialectal) herd
- Middle Dutch: hert, heert, haert
- Old High German: herd
- Middle High German: hert
- Cimbrian: hèart
- German: Herd
- Luxembourgish: Häerd
- Middle High German: hert
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN