harre
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Pronunciation edit
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Verb edit
harre
- inflection of harren:
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
harre
- Alternative form of herre (“hinge”)
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 549-550:
- He was short-sholdred, brood, a thikke knarre,
Ther nas no dore that he nolde heve of harre, [...]- He was stoutly built, broad, a large-framed fellow,
There was no door that he would not heave off its hinges, [...]
- He was stoutly built, broad, a large-framed fellow,
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 549-550:
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
harre
- Alternative form of hare (“hare”)
Sidamo edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Oromo harree, Burji harre, Hadiyya halla and Kambaata harreta.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
harre f (singulative harrichcho m)
References edit
- Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 38
- Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “harre”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department