Hirsch

Hirsch

1. A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Coalfields, Saskatchewan, Canada.
2. A surname from German.
3. A surname from Yiddish.

From Middle High German hirs, from older hirʐ(e), from Old High German hiruz, from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz. Cognate with Dutch hert, English hart.

When the Old High German -u- was lost by syncope (in inflected forms), the fricative /s̄/ came to stand after a consonant, which regularly it never did. This anomaly was then removed by replacing /s̄/ either with /s̠/ (spelt ⟨s⟩) or with the affricate /t͡s/ (cf. Luxembourgish Hierz). In the former case, the cluster /rs̠/ was regularly shifted further to /rʃ/ (cf. Kirsche etc.).

• IPA^(key): /hɪrʃ/, [hɪʁʃ], [hɪɐ̯ʃ]

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Hirsch m (strong, genitive Hirsches or Hirschs, plural Hirsche, diminutive Hirschchen n or Hirschlein n, feminine Hirschkuh or Hirschin) or
(southern Germany and Austria alternatively) Hirsch m (weak, genitive Hirschen, plural Hirschen)

1. deer
2. (humorous) two-wheeler (e.g. bicycle, moped, motorbike)

• Damhirsch, Mähnenhirsch, Platzhirsch
• Rothirsch, Sikahirsch, Wapitihirsch

• Hirschgeweih, Hirschhorn, Hirschkopf, Hirschkuh, Hirschschrei, Hirschzecke

• → Luxembourgish: Hirsch
• → North Frisian: hirsk
• → Plautdietsch: Hersch
• → Saterland Frisian: Hirsk

Hirsch m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Hirschs or (with an article) Hirsch, plural Hirschs or Hirsch)

1. a surname

• Hirschhorn, Hirschhausen
• Kirsch, Miersch

• “Hirsch” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Hirsch” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Hirsch” in Duden online

From German Hirsch. The native cognate is Hierz, obsolete in this sense, but surviving as “stag beetle” (cf. German Hirschkäfer).

• IPA^(key): [hiχʃ]

Hirsch m (plural Hirschen)

1. deer