tharf – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of tharf

Adjective: tharf

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore tharf
Superlativemost tharf

Sample Sentences

  • a tharf person

Etymology

1. From Middle English therf, from Old English þeorf (“unleavened, fresh, skim”), from Proto-West Germanic *þerb, from Proto-Germanic *þerbaz (“unleavened, simple”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terbh-, *(s)trebh- (“rigid, stiff, tight”).
2. Cognate with German derb (“rough, coarse, rude”), Old Frisian therve, Middle Dutch derf. See: German Adjectives 'derb'.