Where does “hare” come from?

hare (Danish) comes from Old Norse hari, from Germanic *hesô.

hare (Danish): hare

Definitions

  1. hare

Ancestry of “hare”, step by step

hare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Norse hari

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Norsehari—
2Germanic*hesô—

via Proto-Germanic *hesô

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic*hesôhare
2Proto-Indo-Europeanḱeh₂s-to lead, teach, educate; grey, hare

Words derived from “hare”

Every word from Germanic *hesô →Every word from Old Norse hari →