Harz
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Harz
- A mountain range in Northern Germany; its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.
Translations[edit]
mountain range
German[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle High German harz, from Old High German harz(uh), from Proto-West Germanic *hart (“pitch, resin”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Harz n (strong, genitive Harzes, plural Harze)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Harz [neuter, strong]
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle High German Hardt, Hart (“hill forest”), from Old High German hart (“forest, wood”, literally “hard”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Harz m (proper noun, strong, genitive Harzes or Harz)
- Harz (a mountain range in central Germany)
References[edit]
- The Standard Dictionary of Facts: History, Language, Literature, Biography, Geography, Travel, Art, Government, Politics, Industry, Invention, Commerce, Science, Education, Natural History, Statistics and Miscellany, p. 819
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “harta-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Further reading[edit]
- “Harz” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Harz” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Harz” in Duden online
- “Harz” in Duden online
Harz on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Harz”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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