herað
Old Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hīwą (“marriage”). Related to the first element of Gothic 𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰 (heiwafrauja, “master of the house”).[1]
Noun
editherað n (dative herði, plural heruð)
Declension
edit Declension of herað (strong a-stem)
Descendants
edit- Icelandic: hérað
- Faroese: herað
- Norwegian Nynorsk: herad; (dialectal) hørå
- Old Swedish: hæraþ
- Swedish: härad
- Danish: herred
- Norwegian Bokmål: herred
- → Scottish Gaelic: Hearadh
References
edit- herað in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1676”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1676