herða

== Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse herða, from Proto-Germanic *hardijaną. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhɛrða/ Rhymes: -ɛrða === Verb === herða (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative herti, supine hert) (transitive) to harden (make harder) (reflexive) to brace oneself to tighten (transitive) [with accusative ‘one's actions’] (intransitive) [with á (+ dative)] a physical object's state (knot, mesh) rules (impersonal) of frost ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== harður harðna == Old Norse == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Germanic *hardijaną. ==== Verb ==== herða (past indicative herði, past participle herðr) (transitive) to make hard, temper (transitive) to press, clench (transitive) to make firm, exhort (absolutive) to follow, closely, pursue vigorously (impersonal) to harden [with accusative] (idiomatically translated as "become hard" with the accusative object as the subject) (reflexive) to take heart ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Descendants ===== Icelandic: herða Norwegian Nynorsk: herda; (dialectal) hørde Norwegian Bokmål: herde Old Swedish: hærþa Swedish: härda Old Danish: hærthæ Danish: hærde === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== herða f (genitive herðu) tempering (of steel) hardness, severity ===== Declension ===== ===== Descendants ===== Norwegian Nynorsk: herde === Etymology 3 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Noun ==== herða indefinite genitive plural of herað indefinite genitive plural of herðr ==== Participle ==== herða inflection of herðr: strong feminine accusative singular strong masculine accusative plural weak masculine oblique singular weak feminine nominative singular weak neuter singular === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “herða”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 195; also available at the Internet Archive