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Galician
Verb
herde
- inflection of herdar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Middle English
Etymology 1
From the oblique forms of Old English heord, hierd, from Proto-West Germanic *herdu, from Proto-Germanic *herdō.
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɛːrd(ə)/, /ˈheːrd(ə)/
Noun
herde (plural herdes)
- herd (group of domesticated animals)
- flock, swarm (group of wild animals)
- (rare) followers of a religious leader
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Etymology 2
From Old English hierde, from Proto-West Germanic *hirdī, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz.
Alternative forms
- heerde, heirde, heorde, herd, hert, heurde, hierde, hird, hirde, hurd, hurde, huyrde, hyrd, hyrde
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɛːrd(ə)/, /ˈheːrd(ə)/
- (dialectal) IPA(key): /ˈhiːrd(ə)/, /ˈhyːrd(ə)/
Noun
herde (plural herdes or (early) herden)
- herdsman, herder
- (figuratively) ruler, director, guide
- (figuratively) spiritual leader
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Etymology 3
From Old English heorde, from Proto-West Germanic *heʀdā.
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɛːrd(ə)/, /ˈheːrd(ə)/
- (Late) IPA(key): /ˈhɛrd(ə)/, /ˈhard(ə)/
Noun
herde (plural herdes or herden)
- (usually in the plural) A short, coarse flax or hemp fibre; a piece of hurds.
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Etymology 4
Noun
herde
- Alternative form of hird (“household”)
Etymology 5
Verb
herde
- first/third-person singular past indicative of heren
- (dialectal) second-person singular past indicative of heren
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse herða.
Verb
herde (imperative herd, present tense herder, passive herdes, simple past and past participle herda or herdet, present participle herdende)
- to harden
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Old French
Etymology
From Frankish *herdu, from Proto-Germanic *herdō, from Proto-Indo-European *kerdʰ- (“file, row, herd”).
Noun
herde oblique singular, f (oblique plural herdes, nominative singular herde, nominative plural herdes)
- herd (grouping of animals)
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Portuguese
Verb
herde
- inflection of herdar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish hirþi, hirþe, herþe, herdhe, from Old Norse hirðir, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz. The ’boy’ sense developed because shepherds were typically young men.
Noun
herde c
- a herder, a shepherd
- den gode herden ― the good shepherd
- (dialectal, dated) a boy, a lad, young man
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