Etymograph

English

hurst

Hurst comes from Middle English hirste ‘wood, grove’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *kʷr̥s-ti-s.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kʷr̥s-ti-sreconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hurstizreconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*hursti‘thicket, wood, grove’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150hyrst‘hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500hirste‘wood, grove’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1612hurst

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kʷr̥s-ti-sreconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hurstizreconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*hursti‘thicket, wood, grove’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150hyrst‘hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500hirste‘wood, grove’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1612hurst

Earliest quotation: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion: “Where, to her neighboring Chase, the curteous Forrest show’d…”

Every English word from Proto-Indo-European *kʷr̥s-ti-s

Today it means

noun A wood or grove.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *kʷr̥s-ti-s / hurst

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