Hirte
See also: hirte
German
Alternative forms
- Hirt (both are roughly equally common)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle High German hirt, hirte, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German hirt, hirti, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz. More cognates: see there.
Pronunciation
Noun
Hirte m (genitive Hirten, plural Hirten, female Hirtin)
- herdsman, herder, shepherd, stockman, pastoralist (male or of unspecified sex)
Declension
Derived terms
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See also
Further reading
- “Hirte” in Duden online