here
Middle English
/ˈhɛːr(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- a military force; a troop, host, or army
- a group of people; a team, band, throng, or mass
- any group or set of things or creatures
- fighting, battle; conflict between armed forces
- (rare) participation in the armed forces
Etymology
Inherited from Old English here (army, host) inherited from *hari inherited from Proto-Germanic *harjaz (army, warrior, commander, host).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*harjaz
Gloss
army, warrior, commander, host
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
将
Emoji
🪖
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Herbert English
- Hereward English
- Herman English
- her English
- herness English
- hers English
- herself English
- whatshername English
- Karjala Finnish
- Lutheranus Latin
- Hermann German
- *ker- Proto-Indo-European
- *koryos Proto-Indo-European
- *kóryos Proto-Indo-European
- *Gunþiharjaz Proto-Germanic
- *Harjamēraz Proto-Germanic
- *Harjawaldaz Proto-Germanic
- *Ingwaz Proto-Germanic
- *harjaz Proto-Germanic
- *harjōną Proto-Germanic
- *hezōi Proto-Germanic
- *īwaz Proto-Germanic
- Hereford Old English
- here Old English
- herebeacen Old English
- heregeatwa Old English
- heregrima Old English
- heretoga Old English
- hereweg Old English
- hiere Old English
- hlæw Old English
- hær Old English
- sciphere Old English
- unfriþhere Old English
- ere Middle English
- heore Middle English
- heres Middle English
- hire Middle English
- Gunnarr Old Norse
- heri Old Norse
- herr Old Norse
- Herbert Cebuano
- heri Old High German
- Heri Faroese
- 𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌹𐍃 Gothic
- *hari gmw-pro
- *karja Proto-Finnic
- *heriberga Frankish
- here Old Frisian
- ᚺᚨᚱᛃᚨ Proto-Norse
- ᚺᚨᚱᛃᚨᛉ Proto-Norse