harðr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *harduz, whence also Old English heard, Old Frisian herd, Old Saxon hard, Old Dutch hart, Old High German hart, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌿𐍃 (hardus). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kert-, *kret- (“strong; powerful”). === Adjective === harðr hard hard, stern, severe hardy ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: harður Faroese: harður Norwegian: hard; (dialectal) hard’u, hard’e → Norwegian Bokmål: hard Old Swedish: harþer Swedish: hård Old Danish: harth Danish: hård Norwegian Bokmål: hård (obsolete) === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “harðr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive