Movatterモバイル変換

[0]ホーム
URL:

Jump to content
WiktionaryThe Free Dictionary
Search

hearth

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]
hearth
EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

[edit]

FromMiddle Englishherth,herthe, fromOld Englishheorþ, fromProto-West Germanic*herþ, fromProto-Germanic*herþaz, possibly fromProto-Indo-European*kerh₃-(“heat; fire”). Cognate withWest Frisianhurd,Dutchhaard,GermanHerd,Swedishhärd.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

hearth (pluralhearths)

  2. Theplace in ahome where afire is or was traditionally kept for homeheating and forcooking, usually constituted by at least ahearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination ofreredos,fireplace,oven,smoke hood, orchimney.
  3. Ahearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosedfireplace oroven.
    cooking on an openhearth
    • 1907 August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, inThe Younger Set, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
      When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on thehearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
  4. Afireplace: an openrecess in awall at thebase of achimney where afire may bebuilt.
  5. The lowest part of ametallurgicalfurnace.
  6. Abrazier,chafing dish, orfirebox.
  7. (figurative)Home orfamilylife.
  8. (Germanicpaganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faithHeathenry.
    • 1996, Vivianne Crowley,Thorsons principles of paganism, page50:
      Asatru is practised all over Northern Europe and also in North America. Like Druidry, it is organized into bodies with sub-groups, thehearths.
    • 2003 December 8, Robert J. Wallis,Shamans/neo-Shamans: Ecstasy, Alternative Archaeologies, and Contemporary Pagans‎[1], page102:
      Smaller localized groups known as 'hearths' meet regularly, and are comparable, in size and function, with a Wiccan 'Coven' or Druidic 'Grove'.
    • 2004 March 1, Peter Clarke, editor,Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements‎[2], Routledge, page768:
      Neopagan groups take many forms, from Wiccan covens to Druid groves, from Heathenhearths to magical lodges[…]

Derived terms

[edit]

Translations

[edit]
floor of fireplace
fireplace—seefireplace
part of furnace
home or family life
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked

References

[edit]
  1. ^Stanley, Oma (1937) “I. Vowel Sounds in Stressed Syllables”, inThe Speech of East Texas (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2),New York:Columbia University Press,→DOI,→ISBN,§ 7, page19.

Anagrams

[edit]

Yola

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

FromMiddle Englishherte, harte, fromOld Englishheorte, fromProto-West Germanic*hertā.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

hearth

  1. heart
    Synonym:core
    • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page102:
      Which maate meehearth as coale as leed.
      Which made myheart as cold as lead.

Derived terms

[edit]

References

[edit]
  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page45
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=hearth&oldid=83471455"
Categories:
Hidden categories:
[8]ページ先頭
©2009-2025 Movatter.jp