- "holy grove; temple, idol". From these, and the Old High
German cognate harug, Proto-Germanic *harugaz has been reconstructed,
possibly cognate with Insular...
-
Norse hǫrgr
meaning 'altar', Old
English hearg 'altar', and Old High
German harug meaning 'holy grove, holy stone'.
According to
philologist Vladimir Orel...
- ('harvest'). *har(u)gaz 'holy stone',
perhaps 'sacrificial mound' OE hearg, OHG
harug ON hǫrgr – From Pre-Ger. *karkú-.
Probably borrowed from the same non-Indo-European...
- literature;
until the 10th century, it is
regularly translated into OHG as
harug, a word
never used for the
secular silva. Servius, however,
somewhat perversely...
