Where does “hierd” come from?

hierd (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic herdō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱerdʰ- — herd, row; file, row, herd.

Ancestry of “hierd”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicherdōherd
2Proto-Indo-Europeanḱerdʰ-herd, row; file, row, herd

Words derived from “hierd”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ḱerdʰ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic herdō →