hart

Pronunciation: /hɑːt/

The English word “hart” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
The meat from this animal.
The stag of any deer species.
In the RISC-V instruction set architecture, a hardware thread.

Etymology

From Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish hjort), from Pre-Germanic *kerudos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Doublet of Heorot. Cognates Compare Welsh carw (“deer”), Latin cervus (“deer”), cervīx (“nape of the neck”), Lithuanian kárvė (“cow”),…

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