hairst

Scots

Alternative forms

  • hayrst, hearst, haerst, harrist, har'st, haist, hairsd, ha'ast, hurst, hairvest, hervest
  • harvast, heirwist (obsolete)

Etymology

From Early Scots harvist, herwist, hervist, hervest, from Middle English harvest, hervest, from Old English hærfest (“autumn; harvest”), from Proto-West Germanic *harbist. Cognate with English harvest, German Herbst (“autumn”).

Noun

hairst (plural hairsts)

  1. harvest
  2. autumn

Synonyms

Verb

hairst

  1. to harvest
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