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”).

Noun

*herþ m

1. 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