The story
- Middle English · inherited fromhurtil-beri“bilberry or blue whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); berry of this shrub”
- English todayhurtleberry
From Middle English hurtil-beri (“bilberry or blue whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); berry of this shrub”); further etymology unknown, compare Middle English horten, hurten (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”), and Old English horte (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishhurtil-beri all →
hurtle
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.