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Scots
Alternative forms
- hayrst, hearst, haerst, harrist, har'st, haist, hairsd, ha'ast, hurst, hairvest, hervest
- harvast, heirwist (obsolete)
Etymology
From Early Scots harvist, herwist, hervist, hervest, from Middle English harvest, hervest, from Old English hærfest (“autumn; harvest”), from Proto-West Germanic *harbist. Cognate with English harvest, German Herbst (“autumn”).
Noun
hairst (plural hairsts)
- harvest
- autumn
Synonyms
Verb
hairst
- to harvest