heurter

Inherited from Middle French heurter, from Old French hurter (“to ram into, strike, collide with”), from Frankish *hūrt (“a battering ram”), from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”). Cognate with Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Old Norse hrútr (“battering ram”).

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /œʁ.te/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: heurtai, heurté, heurtée, heurtées, heurtés, heurtez

heurter

1. to strike, hit
2. to clash, conflict with
3. (reflexive) to crash, collide (together)
4. (reflexive, of opinions) to clash

• entre-heurter / entreheurter

• heurt
• heurté
• heurtoir

• “heurter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

heurter

1. (reflexive, se heurter) to collide (with something)
   • 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 39:

     si se heurta si durement a une pierre qu'il se fist une grande playe en la teste

     then he collided with such a force into a stone that he gave himself a large wound on his head

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

From Old French hurter (“to ram into, strike, collide with”), from Frankish *hūrt (“a battering ram”), from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krow- (“to fall, beat, break”).

heurter

1. (Jersey) to bump