{"id":23664,"date":"2024-09-20T14:32:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T14:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23664"},"modified":"2024-09-20T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T14:32:29","slug":"battering-down-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23664","title":{"rendered":"Battering Down the Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I learnt that a French word for <strong>door knocker<\/strong> is <strong>heurtoir<\/strong>. I wondered if this is related to the English word <strong>hurt<\/strong>. Let&#8217;s find out.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aparis\/50736575862\/in\/photolist-2kiqdnm-Ct62r7-P8gyTW-Gmtniw-DaEm2Q-6KCF8A-6KwJ3P-DcXnaK-6KwYpX-Hjupzg-NanxAV-6KEBmS-2mmFZcj-6KFrFL-6KCAHU-6KB88Y-6KEzjW-6KBERj-KbkSDd-oWQbVh-6KwGEM-6KxAWD-6KCD3d-rh2kfr-6KBn1u-CRbYGE-6KBGAQ-9XTZtr-6kDMMT-FkpFzo-DTVNwo-zRi4jc-reQbP7-636H3r-EknMxA-2hwdCK5-63aYgf-a8co8P-QrXQs3-2mZ7Ne3-rh5exj-Dtx1rc-FKbqS8-2mPTu9m-Qw1Gbn-7LXmgg-EFbmhC-A5F3qF-GfR88v-7u9RLN\" title=\"DSC08266\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50736575862_2a1e08a4c1_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"DSC08266\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heutoir<\/strong> [\u0153\u0281.twa\u0281] means door-knocker, knocker, (rail) buffer or bumper. It comes from <strong>heurter<\/strong> (to hit, collide with, upset, clash, strike, knock), from Middle French <em>heurter<\/em>, from Old French <em>hurter<\/em> (to ram into, strike, collide with), from Frankish <em>*h\u016brt<\/em> (a battering ram), from Proto-Germanic <em>*hr\u016btan\u0105, *hreutan\u0105<\/em> (to fall, fly, move quickly), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*krew-<\/em> (to fall, beat, smash, strike, break) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/heurtoir#French\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words and expressions in French include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>heurt<\/strong> [\u0153\u0281] = collision, bump, clash<\/li>\n<li><strong>sans heurts<\/strong> = smoothly<\/li>\n<li><strong>heurt\u00e9<\/strong> = jerky, uneven<\/li>\n<li><strong>heurter de plein fouet<\/strong> = to crash headlong<\/li>\n<li><strong>heurter qn de front<\/strong> = to clash head-on with sb<\/li>\n<li><strong>s&#8217;heurter (\u00e0)<\/strong> = to collide, crash into, bump, bang into, come up against<\/li>\n<li><strong>entreheurter<\/strong> = to hit one another [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/french-english\/heurt\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Words from the same Proto-Germanic roots include <strong>rout<\/strong> (to beat, strike, assail) in Scots, <strong>hrj\u00f3ta<\/strong> (to snore) in Icelandic, and <strong>a\u00fcrtar<\/strong> (to knock, bump against) in Catalan [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/hr%C5%ABtan%C4%85#Etymology_2\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>So where does the English word <strong>hurt<\/strong> come from?<\/p>\n<p>It comes from Middle English <em>hurten<\/em> (to injure, wound hurt), from Old Northern French <em>hurter<\/em> (to ram into, strike, collide with), either from Frankish <em>*h\u016brt<\/em> (a battering ram), or from Old Norse <em>hr\u00fatr<\/em> (ram [male sheep]), from <em>hj\u01ebrtr<\/em> (stag), from Proto-Germanic <em>*herutuz<\/em> (hart, male deer), which is related to the English word <strong>hart<\/strong> (a male deer) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/hurt#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>So <strong>heurtoir<\/strong> and <strong>hurt<\/strong> might be related, but we can&#8217;t be sure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I learnt that a French word for door knocker is heurtoir. I wondered if this is related to the English word hurt. Let&#8217;s find out. Heutoir [\u0153\u0281.twa\u0281] means door-knocker, knocker, (rail) buffer or bumper. It comes from heurter (to hit, collide with, upset, clash, strike, knock), from Middle French heurter, from Old French hurter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,104,107,110,124,10,26,27,34,36,44,45,55,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catalan","category-english","category-etymology","category-frankish","category-icelandic","category-language","category-middle-english","category-middle-french","category-old-french","category-old-norse","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scots","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23667,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23664\/revisions\/23667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}