hord
Middle English
/hɔrd/, /hoːrd/
noun
Definitions
- A hoard or cache of hidden valuables.
- A location or room of hidden non-valuables.
- A storehouse of (non-hidden) valuables or presents.
- (figurative) A supply or stock of abstract valuables.
- (rare) The act of putting away for safekeeping.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hord (hoard, an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation future use, treasure) inherited from Proto-Germanic *huzdą (hoard, treasure).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*huzdą
Gloss
hoard, treasure
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bookhoard English
- dishoard English
- hoard English
- hoarder English
- hoardful English
- hoardsome English
- hoardy English
- larderhoard English
- scatterhoard English
- unhoard English
- uphoard English
- word-hoard English
- *kusdʰo- Proto-Indo-European
- *huzdą Proto-Germanic
- goldhord Old English
- hord Old English
- hordere Old English
- hordern Old English
- hordian Old English
- wordhord Old English
- horde Middle English
- horden Middle English
- hordere Middle English
- hurd Middle English
- hort Old High German
- 𐌷𐌿𐌶𐌳 Gothic
- hord Old Saxon