harsch

From Low German and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *kars- (“to scratch, scrape, rub, card”); see also Sanskrit कषति (kaṣati, “scratches, rubs”), Russian короста (korosta, “to itch”), Old Church Slavonic краста (krasta), Lithuanian karsiu (“to comb”).

Compare English harsh, which is also borrowed from Middle Low German.

• IPA^(key): /haʁʃ/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /haːʃ/ (widespread, especially northern and central Germany)

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harsch (strong nominative masculine singular harscher, comparative harscher, superlative am harschesten or am harschsten)

1. rough, harsh

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harsch

1. harshly

   Der Lehrer wies den Jungen harsch zurecht.

   The teacher rebuked the boy harshly.

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), “1455”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1455

• “harsch” in Duden online
• “harsch” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache