haraz

Middle French

Alternative forms

haras

Etymology

Inherited from Old French haraz.

Noun

haraz m (plural haraz)

troop of horses

Descendants

French: haras
- → Portuguese: haras

References

haras1 on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Old French

Etymology

According to Bratchet, from Arabic فَرَس (faras, “horse”).^[1] However, Watkins suggests Old Norse hárr (“greyhaired”), referring to the greying of horses with age, or hár (“hair”), referring to stud horses not being saddled.^[2] Also compare Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”).^[3]

Noun

haraz oblique singular, m (oblique plural haraz, nominative singular haraz, nominative plural haraz)

troop of horses

Descendants

Middle French: haraz, haras
- French: haras
  - → Portuguese: haras
→? Italian: razza
- → Alemannic German: Ratze
- → Greek: ράτσα (rátsa)
- → Middle French: race
  - French: race
    - → German: Rasse
      - → Czech: rasa
      - → Polish: rasa
      - → Serbo-Croatian: rasa
      - → Slovene: rasa
    - → Romanian: rasă
  - → English: race
- → Portuguese: raça
- → Catalan: raça
- → Spanish: raza
→ Middle English: haras
- English: haras, harras
- Scots: haryage

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (haras, supplement)

^ Brachet, A. (1873) “haras”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.
^ “race”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

[1] Brachet, A. (1873) “haras”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.

[2] “race”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

[3] Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

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