The story
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*hursti
- Old English · inherited fromhyrst“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”
- Middle English · inherited fromhirste“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”
- English todayhurst
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”). Doublet of horst.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishhyrst all →
LyndhurstTicehurst
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.