Part of speech: noun
Gender: feminine
Stem: -ō-
herd; flock (also hiord, herd)
Etymology
[Mod E HERD ← Prot-Germ *herdō; Goth haírda; O Sax herda; OHG herta (Mod G Herde); O Icel hjǫrð (Mod Icel hjörð) ← Indo-Europ *kerd-; cf Sanskr śárdha- “herd; crowd”; Avest sаrǝδа- “species; breed”; O Prus kērdan “time, turn”; Lith ker̃džius “herdsman”; O Slav чрѣда “herd, flock” (Russ череда “row, sequence”]
Paradigm
1.1.2. (a)
(a) short-stemmed version: car-
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nouns, -ō- stem, feminine gender
caru
(care) |
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| singular | plural | |
| nominative | caru | cara, care |
| genitive | care | cara, carena |
| dative (instrumental) | care | carum |
| accusative | care | cara, care |
The ending -ena in Gen pl is determined by the analogy with the weak declension
(b) long-stemmed version: heord-
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nouns, -ō- stem, feminine gender
heord
(ჯოგი; ფარა) |
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| singular | plural | |
| nominative | heord | heorda, heorde |
| genitive | heorde | heorda, heordena |
| dative (instrumental) | heorde | heordum |
| accusative | heorde | heorda, heorde |
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