different between hurts vs hurst

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??(?)ts/
• Homophone: hertz
• Rhymes: -??(r)ts

Verb

hurts

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hurt

Noun

hurts

1. plural of hurt

Anagrams

• Hurst, Stuhr, Thurs, hurst

Swedish

Alternative forms

• hutsch

Etymology

From English hutch, used in Swedish since 1906, spelled hurts since 1915.

Noun

hurts c

1. (furniture) a desk pedestal, a drawer unit, a cabinet of drawers under a desk

Declension

Synonyms

• underskåp

References

• hurts in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hutsch in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

English

Etymology

From Middle English hirst (“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”), from Old English hyrst (“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”), from Proto-West Germanic *hursti; akin to Dutch horst (“thicket; bird's nest”), German Horst (“thicket, nest”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /h?st/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??st/
• Rhymes: -??(?)st

Noun

hurst (plural hursts)

1. (rare outside place names) A wood or grove.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 2 p. 27[1]:

     Where, to her neighboring Chase, the curteous Forrest show’d

     So just conceived joy, that from each rising a hurst,

     Where many a goodlie Oake had carefullie been nurst,

   • 2000, Grazing Ecology and Forest History ?ISBN, page 150:

     A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […]

Translations

Anagrams

• Hurts, Stuhr, Thurs, hurts