Hart

See also: hart and hårt

Translingual

Symbol

Hart

1. hartley (unit of information)

English

Etymology

• As an English and north/Low German surname, from the noun hart (“stag”).
• As a German surname, variant of Hardt.
• As a Jewish/Yiddish and Dutch surname, from derivatives of *hertā (“heart”), *hard(ī) (“hard”), or *herut (“stag”), or converged senses of them. These senses are also translated from other languages such as French Francoeur, Jolicoeur, Vadeboncoeur, and Native American (Cheyenne) Homa'ehesta, from homa'e (“beaver”) + hesta (“heart”).
• As an Irish surname, from Ó hairt (“descendant of Art”), from the noun art (“bear”). Compare Hartin.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

Proper noun

Hart

1. An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname from Middle English hert (“stag, hart”).
2. A surname from Irish anglicised from the Irish Ó hAirt (“descendant of a person named Bear or Champion”) (see Old Irish art (“bear”))
3. A village and civil parish in Hartlepool borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4735).
4. A local government district in northeastern Hampshire, England.
5. The River Hart, a tributary of the River Whitewater in Hampshire, and ultimately of the Thames.
6. A city, the county seat of Oceana County, Michigan, United States.
7. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Hart Township.

Derived terms

• Hart Butte
• Hart County
• Hartian
• Hart Station
• Hartsville
• Hartville

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 42

Anagrams

• Arth, Rath, Thar, rath, tahr, thar

Saterland Frisian

n Hart.

Etymology

From Old Frisian hert, from Proto-West Germanic *herut. Cognates include West Frisian hart and German Hirsch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hart/
• Hyphenation: Hart
• Rhymes: -art

Noun

Hart m (plural Harte)

1. deer

References

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “Hart”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN