hjarta

From Old Norse hjarta, from Proto-Germanic *hertô, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈjaɻ̊ʈa]
• Rhymes: -aɻ̊ʈa

hjarta n (genitive singular hjarta, plural hjørtu or hjørtur)

1. heart (muscle)
2. heart (seat of emotion)

• hjarta mítt - my love (address)

• hjartari

From Old Norse hjarta, from Proto-Germanic *hertô, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈçar̥ta/
• Rhymes: -ar̥ta

hjarta n (genitive singular hjarta, nominative plural hjörtu)

1. heart (muscle)
2. heart (seat of emotion)

   Synonym: brjóst (literally “breast”)

3. (card games) heart, hearts (♥)

• hjartastilling
• hjartastillir
• hjarta-lungnalífgun

• IPA^(key): /²jɑrtɑ/, /²jɑːrtɑ/, /²jɑːʈɑ/

From Old Norse hjarta, from Proto-Germanic *hertô, whence also English heart. Ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱerd-.

• hjarte
• hjerta, hjerte (between the 1938 and 2012 spelling reforms)

hjarta n (definite singular hjarta, indefinite plural hjarto, definite plural hjarto)

1. heart (muscle)

   Hjarta er ein muskel.

   The heart is a muscle.

2. heart (seat of emotion)

   Hjarta mitt vil det annleis.

   My heart wants it different.

3. definite plural of hjarte

• hjartans

From Old Norse hjartaðr.

hjarta (singular and plural hjarta, comparative meir hjarta, superlative mest hjarta)

1. brave
2. hearted (describing a person's mind; used to create other adjectives)

   Han var ein hardhjarta person.

   He was a hardhearted person.

• (brave): modig, djerv

• heilhjarta

• “hjarta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *hertô, whence also Old Saxon herta, Old Dutch herta, Old Frisian herte, Old English heorte, Old High German herza, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍄𐍉 (hairtō). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr.

hjarta n (genitive hjarta, plural hjǫrtu)

1. heart
   • Hávamál 95 (tr. W. H. Auden and P. B. Taylor):

     Hugr einn þat veit,
     er býr hjarta nær,
     einn er hann sér of sefa;
     ǫng er sótt verri
     hveim snotrum manni
     en sér engu at una.

     The mind alone knows what is near the heart,
     Each is his own judge:
     The worst sickness for a wise man
     Is to crave what he cannot enjoy.

• Icelandic: hjarta
• Faroese: hjarta
• Norn: hjarta
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hjarta, hjarte; (dialectal) hjerta, hjerte
• Jamtish: hjarte
• Elfdalian: järta
• Old Swedish: hiærta
  • Swedish: hjärta, hjerta, järta (obsolete)
    • → Finnish: hertta
• Old Danish: hiartæ, hiærtæ
  • Scanian: hjarta
  • Danish: hjerte
    • Norwegian Bokmål: hjerte
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: hjerte
  • Jutish: jaart
• Gutnish: hjärte

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