hardy
English
Etymology
From Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). Old French hardi is usually regarded as the past participle of hardir ("to harden, be bold, make bold"; compare Occitan ardir, Italian ardire), from Frankish *hardijan; but it may also have come directly from Frankish *hardi, a secondary form of Frankish *hard (compare Old High German harti, herti, secondary forms of Old High German hart (“hard”)); or even yet from Frankish *hardig (compare Middle Low German herdich (“persevering”), Old Danish hærdig, Norwegian herdig, Swedish härdig (“vigorous, courageous”)). Cognate with hard. May have at some point also been surface analysed as hard + -y.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹdi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːdi/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)di
Adjective
Derived terms
- half-hardy
- hardily
- hardiness
- cold hardy
- hardihead
- hardihood
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Translations
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Noun
hardy (plural hardies)
- (usually in the plural) Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
- A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hardy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Middle French
Etymology
Adjective
hardy m (feminine singular hardye, masculine plural hardys, feminine plural hardyes)
- hardy (having rugged physical strength)
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *gъrdъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxar.dɨ/
Audio (file)
Adjective
hardy m (comparative bardziej hardy, superlative najbardziej hardy, adverb hardo)
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- hardy in Polish dictionaries at PWN