Harz

Borrowed from German Harz.

Harz

1. A mountain range in Northern Germany; its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.

From Middle High German harz, from Old High German harz(uh), from Proto-West Germanic *hart (“pitch, resin”).

• IPA^(key): /haːrts/, [haːʁt͡s], [haːɐ̯t͡s], [haːt͡s]

Harz n (strong, genitive Harzes, plural Harze)

1. resin

• Bienenharz, Baumharz, Epoxidharz, Fichtenharz, Kiefernharz, Kunstharz, Tannenharz

• harzen
• harzig
• harzartig

• Harzöl
• Harztropfen

From Middle High German Hardt, Hart (“hill forest”), from Old High German hart (“forest, wood”, literally “hard”).

• IPA^(key): /harts/, [haʁt͡s], [haɐ̯t͡s], [haːt͡s]

Harz m (proper noun, strong, genitive Harzes or Harz)

1. Harz (a mountain range in central Germany)

• The Standard Dictionary of Facts: History, Language, Literature, Biography, Geography, Travel, Art, Government, Politics, Industry, Invention, Commerce, Science, Education, Natural History, Statistics and Miscellany, p. 819
• Kroonen, Guus (2013), “harta-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

• “Harz” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Harz” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Harz” in Duden online
• “Harz” in Duden online
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• Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Harz”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891