heurter

verb

Syllable Decomposition

heurter

From the Old French hurter (1160), perhaps from the Frankish *hurt, related to the Old Norse hrütr ("ram") and also to the hourd, of the same meaning, to which the suffix -er would have been added to transform it into a verb. So, literally, to heurter means "to strike like a ram". But there is another possible etymology in the popular Latin, influenced by Gaulish, uritare ("to strike like a wild bull") from the Latin urus. In the 16th century, the /u/ opened to /œ/ before /r/, especially in Picardy, but also in the east and west of France, and then this pronunciation, and therefore this spelling, prevailed.

Definitions

Conjugation

→ Conjugation of "heurter"

Synonyms

frapperpercuteremboutirfrapperpercuterentrechoquerpercuter

Hyperonym

toucher

Translations

  • germangerman:peitschen gegen
  • englishenglish:wallop
  • danishdanish:slå
  • spanishspanish:batir
  • finnishfinnish:lyödä
  • italianitalian:battere
  • dutchdutch:meppen
  • polishpolish:bić
  • portugueseportuguese:malhar
  • russianrussian:бить
  • swedishswedish:slå

See also

heurtés (v.) heurtiez (v.) heurtas (v.) heurtâmes (v.) heurtâtes (v.) heurteras (v.) heurterez (v.) heurteront (v.) heurtasse (v.) heurtasses (v.) heurtassions (v.) heurtassiez (v.) heurtassent (v.) heurterais (v.) heurteriez (v.) heurté (adj.) heurte (v.) heurtée (adj.) heurtée (v.) heurt (cn.)