harr
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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NounEdit
harr (plural harrs)
- (Britain, dialectal) A sea mist
- 1848, William Davidson, “Observations on the Climate of Largs”, in Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal[2], volume 69, "Arran", pages 39-40:
- Fogs and harrs are unfrequent, as are constant rain; mornings of drenching flood being often succeeded by bright and beautiful days.
- 1890, Sarah Tytler, “An Easterly Harr”, in Pot pourri of gifts literary and artistic[3], page 79:
- The harr clung in a close, white drapery to trees; it swallowed up houses ; it obliterated hills.
- (Scotland) A wind from the east
- 1812, William Tennant, Anster Fair, a Poem[5], 1838 Chambers ed. edition, page 8:
- For lo! now peeping just above the vast / Vault of the German Sea, in east afar, / Appears full many a brig's and schooner's mast, / Their topsails strutting with the vernal harr
Usage notesEdit
- Fog sense often used in British English literature
Alternative formsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 1880, John Jamieson, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, page 489
- 1961, edited by Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect ..., Vol. 3, page 5
- A northern harr Brings fine weather from far'; n.Yks.* e.Yks. MARSHALL Rur. Econ. ... The harr was very heavy in the marshes this mornin' (THR). 2.
- 2005, Bill Griffiths, A Dictionary of North East Dialect - page 80
- ... "hare or harr - a mist or thick fog" Brockett Newc & Nth 1829; "harr - a strong fog or wet mist, almost verging on a drizzle" Atkinson Cleve 1868;
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
harr (plural harrs)
AnagramsEdit
AlbanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Albanian *skarna, from *skera. Cognate with Gothic us-skarjan (“to tear out”), Lithuanian skiriù.[1] More at shqerr.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
harr (first-person singular past tense harra, participle harrë)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 187
Alemannic GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old High German hera. Cognate with German her.
AdverbEdit
harr
ReferencesEdit
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 12.
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
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VerbEdit
harr
Low GermanEdit
VerbEdit
harr
Norwegian BokmålEdit
NounEdit
harr m (definite singular harren, indefinite plural harrer, definite plural harrene)
ReferencesEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
NounEdit
harr m (definite singular harren, indefinite plural harrar, definite plural harrane)
ReferencesEdit
- “harr” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
harr c
DeclensionEdit
Declension of harr | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | harr | harren | harrar | harrarna |
Genitive | harrs | harrens | harrars | harrarnas |
WestrobothnianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse herri, herra, from Old Saxon hērro, from Old High German hēriro, hērro, the comparative form of hēr (“noble, venerable”) (German hehr), by analogy with Latin senior (“elder”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
harr m
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
harr m
YolaEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English herre (“hinge”), from Old English heorra, from Proto-Germanic *herzô.
NounEdit
harr
ReferencesEdit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 44