heart – English noun declension

English noun forms of heart

Noun: heart
Singularheart
Pluralhearts

Sample Sentences

  • […] I did almoſt beleeve, that the motion of the Heart vvas knovvn to God alone: […] [1653, William Harvey, “The Causes which Mov’d the Author to Write”, in [anonymous], transl., The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Harvey […] Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood. […], London: […] Francis Leach, for Richard Lownes […], →OCLC, page 1:]
  • She has a cold heart.
  • In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road. [1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page 266:]
  • Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. [1943, Katherine Woods, transl., The Little Prince, translation of original by Antoine de Saint Exupéry:]
  • "Do what the heart commands," Tothero says. "The heart is our only guide." [1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 47:]
  • a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart
  • Her heart was singing.
  • If she had any heart she'd forgive me.
  • The chorus's singing won the hearts of the audience.
  • Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death, / And in his eies the furies of his heart, / That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng, / And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks. [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 III, scene ii:]
  • Calm and deep peace in this wide air,
  • ⁠These leaves that redden to the fall;
  • ⁠And in my heart, if calm at all,
  • If any calm, a calm despair: […] [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:]
  • They didn't take the remarks in good heart.
  • The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart.
  • She put her whole heart into making a go of the business.
  • Eve, recovering heart, replied. [1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • The expelled nations take heart, and when they fled from one country, invaded another. [c. 1679, William Temple, Essay:]
  • "We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines. [2008, "Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers," Quaker Action (magazine), vol. 89, no. 3, page 8]
  • The result still leaves Wales bottom of the group but in better heart for Tuesday night's trip to face England at Wembley, who are now outright leaders after their 3-0 win in Bulgaria. [2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegrof”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
  • The heart from the home team was immense. Some of them were out on their feet before the end, but they dug in, throwing themselves in front of shots and crosses, surviving. [2016 September 28, Tom English, “Celtic 3–3 Manchester City”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), BBC Sport:]
  • Both theſe unhappy Soils the Swain forbears, / And keeps a Sabbath of alternate Years: / That the ſpent Earth may gather heart again; / And, better'd by Ceſſation, bear the Grain. [1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 52, lines 106–109:]
  • Listen, dear heart, we must go now.
  • My King, my Jove, I speak to thee, my heart! [c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:]
  • Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well./Awake. [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:]
  • Certain unscrupulous men may call upon you here in your dressing-room. They will lavish you with flowers, with compliments, with phials of Hungary water and methuselahs of the costliest champagne. You must be wary of such men, my hearts, they are not to be trusted. [1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pages 9–10:]
  • I know almost every Beatles song by heart.
  • […] I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, / Outbrave the heart most daring on earth, / Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, / Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,[…] [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]
  • "Aw. Thank you." The Cherub kissed the air between them and sent a small cluster of tiny red hearts at her. [1998, Pat Cadigan, Tea From an Empty Cup, page 106:]
  • That is the heart of the matter
  • The wood at the heart of a tree is the oldest.
  • Buddhists believe that suffering is right at the heart of all life.
  • At last she spoke in a low voice, hesitating slightly, nevertheless going with incisive directness into the very heart of the problem. [1899, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in The Strong Arm:]
  • The narrow streets that twist and turn through the compact heart of Dent are surfaced with cobbles which, in the absence of pavements, spread right across from doorstep to doorstep. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 150:]
  • The heart of the modern city is T’ien-an-men Square, one of the largest — if not the largest — square in the world, created expressly in the Fifties on the ashes of the old “Tartar city,” an agglomeration of small and unassuming low grey houses, inhabited by the populace that was once excluded from the “Forbidden City.” [1995, Alberto Zola, “Introduction”, in China, Tiger Books International, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 23:]
  • Arcelia Silva Martinez: Watch out!/Arcelia Silva Martinez: We've got geth in the tower./Fai Dan: Protect the heart of the colony! [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Feros:]
  • Norwich's attack centred on a front pair of Steve Morison and Grant Holt, but Younes Kaboul at the heart of the Tottenham defence dominated in the air. [2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:]

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *ḱḗr
3. Etymology tree
4. Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd-
5. Proto-Indo-European *ḱérd
6. Proto-Germanic *hertô
7. Proto-West Germanic *hertā
8. Old English heorte
9. Middle English herte
10. English heart
11. From Middle English harte, heorrte, hert, herte, hierte, hirte, horte, huerte, hurte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-West Germanic *hertā, from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”), from *ḱerd- (“heart”). Doublet of cardia; see also core.
12. Cognates
13. Cognate with Scots hert (“heart”), Yola hart, hearth (“heart”), North Frisian hart, härt (“heart”), Saterland Frisian Haat (“heart”), West Frisian hert (“heart”), Alemannic German Härz (“heart”), Central Franconian Hatz, Hätz (“heart”), Cimbrian hèertze, hèrtz (“heart”), Dutch hart (“heart”), German Hertz, Herz, Herze (“heart”), Low German Hiärt (“heart”), Luxembourgish Häerz (“heart”), Mòcheno hèrz (“heart”), Vilamovian haoc (“heart”), West Flemish erte (“heart”), Yiddish האַרץ (harts), הערץ (herts, “heart”), Danish hierte, hjerte, hjærte (“heart”), Elfdalian järta (“heart”), Faroese and Icelandic hjarta (“heart”), Jutish jaart (“heart”), Norwegian Bokmål hjerte (“heart”), Norwegian Nynorsk hjarta, hjarte, hjerta, hjerte (“heart”), Swedish hjärta (“heart”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍄𐍉 (hairtō, “heart”); also Cornish kres (“centre, middle; waist”), Irish croí, croidhe (“heart; core; hub; sweetheart”), Manx cree (“heart”), Scottish Gaelic cridhe (“heart; courage; core; nucleus; sweetheart”), Welsh craidd (“centre, core, middle”), Latin cor (“heart”), Greek καρδιά (kardiá, “heart”), Albanian kërth (“askew”), Latgalian sirds (“heart”), Latvian sirde, sirds (“heart”), Lithuanian širdis (“heart”), Old Prussian seyr (“heart”), Belarusian сэ́рца (sérca, “heart”), Bulgarian сърце́ (sărcé, “heart; centre”), Czech and Slovak srdce (“heart”), Macedonian срце (srce, “heart”), Polish serce (“heart”), Russian се́рдце (sérdce, “heart”), Serbo-Croatian ср̏це, sȑce (“heart”), Slovene srce (“heart”), Ukrainian се́рце (sérce, “heart”), Armenian սիրտ (sirt, “heart”), Avestan 𐬰𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬛 (zərəd, “heart”), Baluchi زرد (zird, “heart; conscience”), Central Kurdish زر (zir, “heart”), Persian دل (del / dil, “heart; stomach; mind; courage”), Gurani زێڵ (zēł, “heart”), Northern Kurdish dil (“heart”), Ossetian зӕрдӕ (zærdæ, “heart; soul”), Pashto زړه (zrë, “heart”), Talysh dıl (“heart”), Zazaki zerri (“heart”), Hittite 𒆠𒅕 (ker), 𒊮𒅕 (ŠÀ-er, “heart”), Luwian 𒍝𒀀𒅈𒍝 (UZUzārza), 𔖪𔖱𔖪 (zārza, “heart”), Ashkun židi (“heart”), Kamkata-viri j̈arë, zërë (“heart”), Prasuni zër (“heart”), Tocharian A kri (“will”), Tocharian B *käryā- (“heart”), Sanskrit हृद् (hṛd, “heart; soul; breast, chest”).
14. Most of the modern figurative senses (such as passion or compassion, spirit, inmost feelings, especially love, affection, and courage) were present in Old English. However, the meaning “center” dates from the early 14th century. The verb sense “to love” is from the 1977 I ❤ NY advertising campaign.
15. Notes on spelling
16. The spelling ⟨ear⟩ for /ɑː(ɹ)/ is paralleled by hearken and hearth, but is problematic since an Early Modern variant with /ɛːr/ can be posited for those words, but not heart. Perhaps it represents Middle Scots hart /hɛːrt/ (reflecting the Scots lengthening of /a/ before /r/ then a consonant, then the early actuation of the Great Vowel Shift in Scots) or a parallel development in Northern England. Alternatively, a back-spelling by speakers of dialects where preconsonantal /ɛːr/ was shortened early, allowing it to undergo the late Middle English lowering to /ar/ (reflected in forms such as larn "learn") is possible. See: Middle English Nouns 'harte', Old English Nouns 'heorte', Dutch Nouns 'hart', German Nouns 'Hertz', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'hjerte', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'hjarta', Swedish Nouns 'hjärta', Gothic Nouns '𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍄𐍉', Irish Nouns 'croí', Latin Nouns 'cor', Greek Nouns 'καρδιά', Latvian Nouns 'sirde', Polish Nouns 'serce'.

Verbs referencing "heart"

Irish Nouns hart, German Nouns Herz, Latin Nouns cor, Hungarian Nouns szerda, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns hjarta, Ancient Greek Nouns καρδία, Swedish Nouns hjärta.