herað

See also: herad and hérað

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hīwą (“marriage”). Related to the first element of Gothic 𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰 (heiwafrauja, “master of the house”).[1]

Noun

herað n (dative herði, plural heruð)

district
country (countryside)

Declension

Declension of herað (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	herað	heraðit	herǫð, heruð	herǫðin, heruðin
accusative	herað	heraðit	herǫð, heruð	herǫðin, heruðin
dative	herði	herðinu	herðum	herðunum
genitive	heraðs	heraðsins	herða	herðanna

Descendants

Icelandic: hérað
Faroese: herað
Norwegian Nynorsk: herad; (dialectal) hørå
Old Swedish: hæraþ
- Swedish: härad
Danish: herred
- Norwegian Bokmål: herred
→ Scottish Gaelic: Hearadh

References

herað in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 1676, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1676

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