herða

From Old Norse herða, from Proto-Germanic *hardijaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛrða/

  Rhymes: -ɛrða

herða (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative herti, supine hert)

1. (transitive)
   1. to harden (make harder)
   2. (reflexive) to brace oneself
2. to tighten
   1. (transitive) [with accusative ‘one's actions’]
   2. (intransitive) [with á (+ dative)]
      1. a physical object's state (knot, mesh)
      2. rules
      3. (impersonal) of frost

• harður
• harðna

From Proto-Germanic *hardijaną.

herða (past indicative herði, past participle herðr)

1. (transitive) to make hard, temper
2. (transitive) to press, clench
3. (transitive) to make firm, exhort
4. (absolutive) to follow, closely, pursue vigorously
5. (impersonal) to harden [with accusative] (idiomatically translated as "become hard" with the accusative object as the subject)
6. (reflexive) to take heart

• Icelandic: herða
• Norwegian Nynorsk: herda; (dialectal) hørde
• Norwegian Bokmål: herde
• Old Swedish: hærþa
  • Swedish: härda
• Old Danish: hærthæ
  • Danish: hærde

herða f (genitive herðu)

1. tempering (of steel)
2. hardness, severity

• Norwegian Nynorsk: herde

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

herða

1. indefinite genitive plural of herað
2. indefinite genitive plural of herðr

herða

1. inflection of herðr:
   1. strong feminine accusative singular
   2. strong masculine accusative plural
   3. weak masculine oblique singular
   4. weak feminine nominative singular
   5. weak neuter singular

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “herða”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 195; also available at the Internet Archive