herðr

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Old Norse[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *hardī (shoulder), from Proto-Indo-European *kort-íh₂s.

Noun[edit]

herðr f (genitive herðar, dative herði, plural herðar)

  1. (anatomy) shoulder
Declension[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • Icelandic: herðar f pl
  • Faroese: herðar f pl
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: herd
  • Norwegian Bokmål: herd

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle[edit]

herðr

  1. past participle of herða
Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  • herðr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hardi”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 211