Harz

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Harz.

Proper noun

Harz

1. A mountain range in central Germany; its rugged terrain extends across parts of in Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.
2. A rural district of Saxony-Anhalt. Seat: Halberstadt

Translations

mountain range

• Armenian: Հարց (Harcʻ)
• German: Harz (de)
• Hungarian: Harz (hu)
• Russian: Гарц (ru) (Garc), Харц (Xarc)

East Central German

Etymology

Compare German Herz.

Noun

Harz

1. (Erzgebirgisch) heart

Further reading

• 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58:

German

Etymology 1

From Middle High German harz, from Old High German harz(uh), from Proto-West Germanic *hart (“pitch, resin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haːrts/, [haːʁt͡s], [haːɐ̯t͡s], [haːt͡s]

Noun

Harz n (strong, genitive Harzes, plural Harze)

1. resin

Declension

Declension of Harz [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Harz	die	Harze
genitive	eines	des	Harzes	der	Harze
dative	einem	dem	Harz, Harze1	den	Harzen
accusative	ein	das	Harz	die	Harze

¹Now rare, see notes.

Hyponyms

• Bienenharz, Baumharz, Epoxidharz, Fichtenharz, Kiefernharz, Kunstharz, Tannenharz

Derived terms

• harzen
• harzig
• harzartig

Related terms

• Harzöl
• Harztropfen

Etymology 2

From Middle High German Hardt, Hart (“hill forest”), from Old High German hart (“forest, wood”, literally “hard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /harts/, [haʁt͡s], [haɐ̯t͡s], [haːt͡s]

Proper noun

Harz m (proper noun, strong, genitive Harzes or Harz)

1. Harz (a mountain range in Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia)
2. A rural district of Saxony-Anhalt. Seat: Halberstadt

References

• The Standard Dictionary of Facts: History, Language, Literature, Biography, Geography, Travel, Art, Government, Politics, Industry, Invention, Commerce, Science, Education, Natural History, Statistics and Miscellany, p. 819
• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “harta-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Further reading

• “Harz” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Harz” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Harz” in Duden online
• “Harz” in Duden online
• Harz on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Harz”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891