Herz

From Middle High German herze, from Old High German herza. Cognate with German Herz.

• IPA^(key): /heɐ̯t͡s/

Herz n (plural Herzen or Herzn)

1. heart
2. (card games) hearts

• Dat.Sg.: Herzen or Herz

German suits in Bavarian · 's Deitsche Blatt (layout · text)
Herz	Schelln	Groos	Oachl

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• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɛrs]

Herz m anim (female equivalent Herzová)

1. a male surname

• Herze, Hertz (obsolete)

From Middle High German herze, from Old High German herza, from Proto-West Germanic *hertā, from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”).

Cognate with Dutch hart, English heart, Danish hjerte, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍄𐍉 (hairtō).

• IPA^(key): /hɛrts/, [hɛʁt͡s], [hɛɐ̯t͡s]

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• Homophone: Hertz

Herz n (weak, genitive Herzens or (very rare) Herzes, plural Herzen, diminutive Herzchen n or Herzlein n or ((also) Ruhrpöttisch) Herzken n)

1. heart
2. (card games) hearts
3. sweetheart, darling

• Herz has irregular singular declension and is the only noun of its kind.

• The genitive singular takes the ending -ens: des Herzens. The form des Herzes is less common and only used in medicine.
• The dative singular traditionally takes -en: dem Herzen. This form is still the only accepted standard form in many—more or less fixed—expressions, such as im Herzen, von Herzen, zu Herzen, Operation am offenen Herzen (“open-heart surgery”), mit halbem Herzen (“half-heartedly”), and others.

Only the bare form dem Herz is common when referring to a card suit, as a term of endearment, and in the phrase mit Herz (“good-hearted”).

Otherwise, the forms dem Herzen and dem Herz are both acceptable. The latter is predominant in speech, while the former remains the more established form in writing.

• → Macedonian: херц m (herc)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: хе̏рц m

  Latin script: hȅrc m

• Kardia

Suits in German · Farbe (layout · text)
Herz	Karo	Pik, Schippe	Kreuz, Treff

German suits in German · das Deutsche Blatt (layout · text)
Herz, Rot	Schellen	Laub, Grün	Eichel, Eckern

• “Herz” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Herz” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Herz” in Duden online
• “Herz” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Herz on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• Hetz

From Central Franconian Hätz, from Middle High German herze, from Old High German herza.

• IPA^(key): /hɛt͡s/

Herz n (plural Herze, diminutive Herzje)

1. heart

   Mein Herz dud weh.

   My heart hurts.

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Herz”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 75