Where does “HR” come from?

HR (Translingual) comes from Serbo-Croatian Hrvatska, from Serbo-Croatian Hr̀vāt, from Proto-Slavic xorvatъ — Croat.

Ancestry of “HR”, step by step

HR traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Serbo-Croatian Hrvatska

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Serbo-CroatianHrvatskaCroatia
2Serbo-CroatianHr̀vāta Croat; Croat
3Proto-SlavicxorvatъCroat

via English Haryana

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishHaryana—
2Hindiहरियाणा—
Every word from Proto-Slavic xorvatъ →Every word from Serbo-Croatian Hr̀vāt →Every word from Serbo-Croatian Hrvatska →