From en.wiktionary.org:
[Herd]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], [enm], [enm], from [en], [ang], from [en], from [en], from [en].
Cognate with [de], [da], [sv]. Non-Germanic cognates include [sq] and [sh].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A number of domestic animal s assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. [from 11th c.]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1768 | author=w:Thomas Gray | title=s:Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
|passage=The lowing HERD wind slowly o’er the lea.}}
1. Any collection of animal s gathered or travelling in a company. [from 13th c.]
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2007 | author=J. Michael Fay | title=Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma | journal=National Geographic | month=March | section=47
|passage=Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a
thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact HERD.}}
1. [en] A crowd , a mass of people or things; a rabble . [from 15th c.]
2. * [page=15]
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | author=w:Samuel Taylor Coleridge | journal=Table Talk | date=8 June 1833
|passage=You can never interest the common HERD in the abstract question.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2001 | author=Jonathan Franzen | title=The Corrections
|passage=There were HERDS of leather sofas and enough computers to ensure that
no prospective matriculant or visiting parent could enter a room and not see
at least one available keyboard, not even in the dining hall or field house.}}
***** Hyponyms
- [group of elephants] [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|beeherd |bot herd |flerd |herd behaviour |herd boar |herdbook
|herdboy |herd cats |herdess |herdful |herdgroom |herd immunity |herd instinct
|herdless |herdlike |herdman |herd mentality |herdowner |herd path |herdsboy
|herdswoman |herdthink |herdwide |interherd |intraherd |put the herd on
someone |share herd |share-herd |subherd |thin the herd |thundering herd
problem }}
***** Translations
[a number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership
of a keeper]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] [horses] , [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] [dialectal] , [bg] [dialectal]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Egyptian: [jdr]
- Esperanto: [samspecaj bestoj] : [eo] , [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht] , [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km] , [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Maore Comorian: [swb]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Mongolian:
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old East Slavic: [orv] , [orv]
- Old Norse: [non]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] [of wild equids]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [horses]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl] [dated]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[cattle assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Budukh: [bdk]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Khinalug: [kjj]
- Lezgi: [lez]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Tsakhur: [tkr]
- Volapük: [vo]
[trans-bottom]
[horses assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Mongolian: [mn]
[trans-bottom]
[pigs assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[sheep assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Volapük: [vo]
[trans-bottom]
[any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq] , [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] [horses]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba] , [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [horses] [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Coptic: [cop]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Egyptian: [jdr]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et] [wild; numerous; winged]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Gallurese: [sdn]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [domestic:] [el] , [wild:] [el]
- Hebrew: [domestic:] [he] , [wild:] [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [horses] [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [horses] [ru]
- Rutul: [rut]
- Sardinian:
- Sassarese: [sdc]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Tuvan: [tyv] , [tyv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [horses] [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Volapük: [vo] , [in the Alps] [vo]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[a crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. [en] To unite or associate in a herd
5. [en] To manage, care for or guard a herd
6. [en] To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
7. * [pages=39–40]
8. * [passage=" [ W ] hy, I say, oh stranger, dost thou think that I HERD here with barbarians lower than the beasts?"]
9. To move, or be moved, in a group. [of both animals and people]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|herdable |herd together |misherd |unherded }}
***** Translations
[intr: to unite or associate in a herd]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk] [usually a donkey]
- Maori: [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[tr: to unite or associate in a herd]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Latin: [la]
[trans-bottom]
[tr: to manage, care for or guard a herd]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[intr: to associate]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
**** Synonyms
[en]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], from [en], [ang], from [en], from [en]. Cognate with [de], [sv],
[da].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] Someone who keep s a group of domestic animals.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1902 | author=John Buchan | title=The Outgoing of the Tide
|passage=John Dodds, the HERD who bode in the place, was standing at the door,
and he looked to see who was on the road so late.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2000 | author=Alasdair Grey | title=The Book of Prefaces | page=38 | publisher=Bloomsbury | year_published=2002
|passage=Any talent which gives a good new thing to others is a miracle, but
commentators have thought it extra miraculous that England's first known poet
was an illiterate HERD.}}
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|title=terms derived from _herd (person who tends a herd)_ |bearherd
|cowherd |goatherd |gooseherd |Hird |hogherd |horseherd |Hurd |neatherd
|oxherd |pigherd |swanherd |swineherd |VAXherd }}
***** Related terms
{{col|en|title=terms related to _herd (person who tends a herd)_ |cowherd
|goatherd |gosherd |hogsherd |horseherd |neatherd |shepherd |swineherd }}
***** Translations
[herdsman]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Basque: [eu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
2. [en] To form or put into a herd.
3. [en] To move or drive a herd.
***** Translations
[to act as a herdsman]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to form or put into a herd]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
[trans-bottom]
*** See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en] < !-- also hyphenated or single word? may be a synonym -->
- [en]
*** Further reading
- [herd (disambiguation)]
[en] [en]
** Middle English
*** Etymology 1
**** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
*** Etymology 3
**** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Verb
[nb]
1. [nb]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Etymology 1
From [nn].
**** Alternative forms
- [nn]
**** Pronunciation
- [nn] [nn-pronu-note]
**** Noun
[nn-noun-f13]
1. shoulder
*** Etymology 2
**** Alternative forms
- [nn]
**** Participle
[nn-part-1]
1. [nn]
*** References
- [R:ND]
- [Hær]
** Old High German
*** Etymology
From [goh].
*** Noun
[m]
1. hearth
**** Descendants
- [gmh]
- [cim]
- [de]
- [lb]
- [yi]