Harriet

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Proper noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Quotations 2 Danish 2.1 Proper noun 3 Swedish 3.1 Proper noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Anglicized form of French Henriette, feminine form of Henri ( Henry), popular in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɛɹɹiɛt/, SAMPA: /hErriEt/.

[edit] Proper noun

Singular Harriet

Plural -

Harriet

1. A female given name.

[edit] Related terms

• Hallie
• Hattie
• Henrietta
• Harry
• Henry

[edit] Quotations

• 1833 Leigh Hunt, A Year of Honey-Moons, Court magazine and monthly, E. Bull 1833, page 33:

  Harriet, by the way, is a very sprightly name. It is the female of Harry, and is identified in my imagination with I know not what of the power of being lively and saucy, without committing the sweetness of womanhood.

• 1995 Elizabeth Wurtzel: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Riverhead Books, 1995, ISBN 1573225126, page 14

  I found myself wanting to explain it to her, this middle-aged woman with the kind of haircut you call a hairdo, which needed to be set in rollers every night, who had a name like Agnes or Harriet, a name that even predated my mother's generation.

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Proper noun

Harriet

1. A female given name borrowed from English.

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Proper noun

Harriet

1. A female given name borrowed from English.