hurst
Meaning
A wood or grove.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/hɝst/
Etymology
In summary
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”).
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