hurst

See also Hurst

English

Etymology

From Middle English hirst (“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”), Old English hyrst (“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”), from Proto-Germanic *hurstiz; akin to German Horst (“thicket, nest”)

Noun

hurst (plural hursts)

1. A wood or grove.

Translations

a wood or grove

• Dutch: horst (nl)

Anagrams

• hurts, Thurs