hurt
English
/hɜːt/, /hɝt/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To be painful.
- (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English hurten derived from hurter derived from Frankish *hūrt (a battering ram, ram, battering ram) derived from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną derived from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (beat, strike, break, smash, fall) inherited from Old English *hȳrtan derived from Old Norse hrútr (battering ram, ram) derived from Proto-Germanic *herutuz.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*herutuz
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Hurtville English
- butt English
- butthurt English
- butthurtness English
- hurtability English
- hurtable English
- hurted English
- hurter English
- hurteth English
- hurtful English
- hurtfully English
- hurtfulness English
- hurtle English
- hurtless English
- hurtlessly English
- hurtlessness English
- hurtsome English
- hurty English
- unhurt English
- unhurtable English
- unhurtful English
- entre-heurter French
- heurter French
- heurtoir French
- *ker- Proto-Indo-European
- *krew- Proto-Indo-European
- *herutuz Proto-Germanic
- *hrewwō Proto-Germanic
- *hrūtaną Proto-Germanic
- *hrūtaz Proto-Germanic
- *hȳrtan Old English
- hrūtan Old English
- hurten Middle English
- hurtlen Middle English
- hrútr Old Norse
- hurt Old French
- hrútur Icelandic
- heurter Norman
- *hrūtan gmw-pro
- *hurton Frankish
- *hūrt Frankish
- urtar Old Occitan
- hurter ONF.