hurst
/hɝst/ · noun
Meaning
- A wood or grove.
- A number of places in England:
- A village in St Nicholas Hurst parish, Wokingham borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU7973).
- A hamlet in Skelton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4141).
- A hamlet in Moreton parish, Dorset, previously in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY7990).
- A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD9400).
- A hamlet in Marrick parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref NZ0402).
- A hamlet in Clun parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SO3180).
- A suburb of Martock, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4518).
- A place in the United States:
- A minor city in Williamson County, Illinois.
- A ghost town in Texas County, Missouri.
- A city in Tarrant County, Texas.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English hirste (“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”), from Old English hyrst (“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”), from Proto-West Germanic *hursti; akin to Dutch horst (“thicket; bird's nest”), German Horst (“thicket, nest”). Doublet of horst.
- Horst(German)→
- horst(Dutch)→
- *hursti(gmw-pro)→
- hyrst(Old English)→
- hirste(Middle English)→
- hurst (English)
- Relations: inh, inh, inh, cog, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- Horst(German) (cog)
- *kʷresnom(Proto-Celtic) (cog)
- prys(Welsh) (cog)
- prysg(Welsh) (cog)
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