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Swedish
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Etymology
From Old Swedish hiærta, from Old Norse hjarta, from Proto-Germanic *hertô, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”). Compare English heart, German Herz, Dutch hart, Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk hjarta, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hjerte.
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Noun
hjärta n
- (anatomy, also figuratively) heart
- Hypernym: kroppsdel
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