hjärta

== Swedish == === Alternative forms === hjerta, järta (obsolete) === Etymology === From Old Swedish hiærta, from Old Norse hjarta, from Proto-Germanic *hertô, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”). Compare English heart, German Herz, Dutch hart, Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk hjarta, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hjerte. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈjɛrˌta/, [ˈjæˌʈːa] === Noun === hjärta n (anatomy, also figuratively) heart Hypernym: kroppsdel ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Finnish: hertta === References === “hjärta”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “hjärta”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “hjärta”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) Svensk MeSH