heiser

German

Etymology

From Middle High German heiser (rough, hoarse), Old High German heisi (hoarse), from Old High German *haisaz. Cognate with Middle Dutch heersch, Old Norse hvískra (to whisper), Old English hās, Dutch hees (hoarse), English hoarse, Old Norse háss.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ̯zɐ/
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Adjective

heiser (strong nominative masculine singular heiserer, comparative heiserer, superlative am heisersten)

  1. hoarse

Declension

References

  1. Friedrich Kluge (1883) “heiser”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

heiser m

  1. indefinite plural of heis

Verb

heiser

  1. present of heise

Old French

Verb

heiser

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of eiser

References

eiser in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2022

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