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Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
hurd
- Alternative form of herde (“herder”)
Etymology 2
Noun
hurd
- Alternative form of hord
Etymology 3
Verb
hurd
- Alternative form of horden
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian herde, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī).
Adjective
hurd
- hard
Inflection
Further reading
- “hurd (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011