hart – English noun declension

English noun forms of hart

Noun: hart
Singularhart
Pluralhart; harts

Sample Sentences

  • With milke-white Hartes vpon an Iuorie ſled,
  • Thou ſhalt be drawen amidſt the froſen Pooles,
  • And ſcale the yſie mountaines lofty tops:
  • Which with thy beautie will be soone reſolu’d. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:]
  • Then, finding Herds of luſtie Deare, / She Huntreſſe-like the Hart purſues; […] [1612, Michael Drayton, “The thirteenth Song”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 213:]
  • We are to have hart for dinner on Jack’s birthday; you call it deer in Grenada. [1891 July 8, L. S., “Twenty Hidden Towns in One State”, in Good Housekeeping […], volume XIII, number 2 (154 overall), Springfield, Mass., published August 1891, →OCLC, page 95, column 1:]
  • The people of Israel knew something of hunting, as in the stories of eating hart and roebuck, and venison. [1999, James B[iser] Whisker, “Hunting in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition”, in The Right to Hunt, revised edition, Bellevue, Wash.: Merril Press, →ISBN, page 38:]
  • Still, the people of Israel certainly knew about hunting, because they ate hart (red deer) and roe deer. [2003, Richard D. Taber, Neil F. Payne, “Ancient Warrior-Rulers”, in Wildlife, Conservation, and Human Welfare: A United States and Canadian Perspective, Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 30:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish hjort), from Pre-Germanic *kerudos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Doublet of Heorot.
2. Cognates
3. Compare Welsh carw (“deer”), Latin cervus (“deer”), cervīx (“nape of the neck”), Lithuanian kárvė (“cow”), Russian коро́ва (koróva, “cow”), Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”), κορυφή (koruphḗ, “summit, crown of the head”), κορύπτω (korúptō, “to butt with horns”), Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬏 (srū), 𐬯𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬁 (sruuā, “horn; claw, talon”), Sanskrit शरभ (śarabhá, “mythical antelope”). More at horn. See: Middle English Nouns 'hert', Old English Nouns 'heorot', Dutch Nouns 'hert', German Nouns 'Hirsch', Swedish Nouns 'hjort', Latin Nouns 'cervus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κόρυδος'.

Verbs referencing "hart"

German Nouns Hirsch, Danish Nouns hjort, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns hjort, English Nouns hearst.