hjarta

== Faroese == === Etymology === From Old Norse hjarta, from Proto-Germanic *hertô, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈjaɻ̊ʈa] Rhymes: -aɻ̊ʈa === Noun === hjarta n (genitive singular hjarta, plural hjørtu or hjørtur) heart (muscle) heart (seat of emotion) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== hjarta mítt - my love (address) ==== Related terms ==== hjartari == Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse hjarta, from Proto-Germanic *hertô, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈçar̥ta/ Rhymes: -ar̥ta === Noun === hjarta n (genitive singular hjarta, nominative plural hjörtu) heart (muscle) heart (seat of emotion) Synonym: brjóst (literally “breast”) (card games) heart, hearts (♥) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== hjartastilling hjartastillir hjarta-lungnalífgun == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /²jɑrtɑ/, /²jɑːrtɑ/, /²jɑːʈɑ/ === Etymology 1 === From Old Norse hjarta, from Proto-Germanic *hertô, whence also English heart. Ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱerd-. ==== Alternative forms ==== hjarte hjerta, hjerte (between the 1938 and 2012 spelling reforms) ==== Noun ==== hjarta n (definite singular hjarta, indefinite plural hjarto, definite plural hjarto) heart (muscle) heart (seat of emotion) definite plural of hjarte ===== Declension ===== ===== Related terms ===== hjartans === Etymology 2 === From Old Norse hjartaðr. ==== Adjective ==== hjarta (singular and plural hjarta, comparative meir hjarta, superlative mest hjarta) brave hearted (describing a person's mind; used to create other adjectives) ===== Synonyms ===== (brave): modig, djerv ===== Derived terms ===== heilhjarta === References === “hjarta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *hertô, whence also Old Saxon herta, Old Dutch herta, Old Frisian herte, Old English heorte, Old High German herza, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍄𐍉 (hairtō). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr. === Noun === hjarta n (genitive hjarta, plural hjǫrtu) heart Hávamál 95 (tr. W. H. Auden and P. B. Taylor): ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: hjarta Faroese: hjarta Norn: hjarta Norwegian Nynorsk: hjarta, hjarte; (dialectal) hjerta, hjerte Jamtish: hjarte Elfdalian: järta Old Swedish: hiærtaSwedish: hjärta, hjerta, järta (obsolete)→ Finnish: hertta Old Danish: hiartæ, hiærtæ Scanian: hjarta Danish: hjerte Norwegian Bokmål: hjerte → Norwegian Nynorsk: hjerte Jutish: jaart Gutnish: hjärte === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “hjarta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive