hearth

Betekenis (Engels)

The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
Home or family life.
A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.

haard

haardstede

open haard

stookplaats

vuurhaard

open fireplace

cooking place

fire side

fire-place

by the fire

cooking stones

fire pit

melting chamber

finger grate

furnace chamber

fireplace in house

open furnace

furnace bed

bottom of the hearth

oven sole

oven bottom

oven hearth

altar

furnace cavity

bed plate

Frequentie

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/hɑːθ/

From Middle English herth, herthe, from Old English heorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *herþ, from Proto-Germanic *herþaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“heat; fire”). Cognate with West Frisian hurd, Dutch haard, German Herd, Swedish härd.