Word Origin Summary

*herutaz is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• hjørtur

  Faroese · derived from

• hirsch

  Cimbrian · inherited from

• hartebeest

  English · derived from

• hert

  Middle Dutch · inherited from

• Harton

  English · derived from

• Hartshorne

  English · derived from

• Hirsch

  German · inherited from

• heorot

  English · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root