*hertô

Runic: ᚺᛖᚱᛏᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈxer.tɔːː/

noun · neuter · an-stem

Meanings

heart

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱérd (‘heart’), reanalyzed as a neuter an-stem.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.hertôhertōnō
Acc.hertôhertōnō
Gen.hirtinizhertanǫ̂
Dat.hirtinihertammaz
Inst.hirtinēhertammiz
Voc.hertôhertōnō

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Descendants

  • *hertā (Proto-West Germanic)
    • herta (Old Dutch)
      • herte, harte (Middle Dutch)
        • hert (Limburgish)
        • erte (West Flemish)
  • *hertā (Proto-West Germanic)
    • herta (Old Dutch)
      • herte, harte (Middle Dutch)
        • hart (Dutch)
          • hart (Afrikaans)
  • *hertā (Proto-West Germanic)
    • heorte, herte, hearte, hiorte (Old English)
      • herte, hert, hertt, hirte, heortæ, hierte, hart, harte, herrte, heorrte, heorte, horte, huerte, hurte (Middle English)
        • heart (English)
        • hert, hart, hairt (Scots)
        • hearth, hart (Yola)
  • *hertā (Proto-West Germanic)
    • herte, hirte (Old Frisian)
      • Haat (Saterland Frisian)
      • hert (West Frisian)
  • *hertā (Proto-West Germanic)
    • hërza (Old High German)
      • hërze (Middle High German)
        • Härz (Alemannic German)
        • ? (Bavarian)
        • Hätz, Hetz, Hatz, Herz, Hearz, Häerz (Central Franconian)
        • Herz (German)
        • Häerz (Luxembourgish)
        • haoc (Vilamovian)
        • האַרץ (harts) (Yiddish)
  • *hertā (Proto-West Germanic)
    • hërza (Old High German)
      • hërze (Middle High German)
        • Herze / Härze (Breslauisch) / Harze (Silesian East Central German)
          • / harzlich (Silesian East Central German)
  • *hertā (Proto-West Germanic)
    • herta (Old Saxon)
      • herte, harte (Middle Low German)
        • Hart (German Low German)
        • Hart, Hiärt, Hert (Low German)
        • Hoat (Plautdietsch)
  • hjarta (Old Norse)
    • järta (Elfdalian)
    • hjarta (Faroese)
    • hjärte (Gutnish)
    • hjarta (Icelandic)
    • hjarte (Jamtish)
    • hjarta (Norn)
    • hjarta, hjarte, hjerta, hjerte (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • hjarta (Old Norse)
    • hiartæ, hiærtæ (Old Danish)
      • jaart (Jutish)
      • hjarta (Scanian)
  • hjarta (Old Norse)
    • hiartæ, hiærtæ (Old Danish)
      • hjerte (Danish)
        • hjerte (Norwegian Bokmål)
          • hjerte (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • hjarta (Old Norse)
    • hiærta (Old Swedish)
      • hjärta, hjerta, järta (Swedish)
        • hertta (Finnish)
  • 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍄𐍉 (hairtō) (Gothic)

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