hurst

Senso

A wood or grove.

Frequenza

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/hɝst/

Etimologia

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”).