herd

英 [h??d] 美[h?d]

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復數:?herds;第三人稱單數:?herds;過去式:?herded;過去分詞:?herded;現在分詞:?herding;

herd 墓群，獸群——heard聽見（hear的過去式）
口訣：我聽見遠處有牧群的聲音。

herd 牧群，放牧

來自PIE*kerdh,獸群，牧群。

herd: herd: [OE] Herd is part of a widespread Indo- European family of words denoting ‘group’ (others include Sanskrit ?árdhas ‘troop, multitude’ and Welsh cordd ‘tribe, family’). It goes back to an Indo-European *kherdhā-, whose Germanic descendant *kherthō produced German herde, Swedish and Danish hjord, and English herd. Herd ‘herdsman’, now found only in compounds such as shepherd and goatherd, is a different word, albeit derived from the same Germanic source. Its Germanic relatives are German hirte, Swedish herde, and Danish hyrde.
herd (n.): Old English heord "herd, flock," from Proto-Germanic *herdo- (cognates: Old Norse hjore, Old High German herta, German Herde, Gothic hairda "herd"), from PIE *kerdh- "a row, group, herd" (cognates: Sanskrit ?árdhah "herd, troop," Old Church Slavonic ?reda "herd," Greek korthys "heap," Lithuanian kerd?ius "shepherd"). Herd instinct in psychology is first recorded 1908.
herd (v.): mid-13c., a??to watch over or herd (livestock);a?? of animals, a??to gather in a herd, to form a flock,a?? late 14c., from herd (n.). Related: Herded; herding.

2. A herd of elephants lolloped across the plains towards a watering hole.: 一群大象緩慢而笨拙地穿過平原，朝水潭走去。