herd

• n. 獸群，畜群；放牧人
• vi. 成群，聚在一起
• vt. 放牧；使成群
• n. (Herd)人名；(英、芬)赫德

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 çárdhas ‘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 hjorð, Old High German herta, German Herde, Gothic hairda "herd"), from PIE *kerdh- "a row, group, herd" (cognates: Sanskrit śárdhah "herd, troop," Old Church Slavonic čreda "herd," Greek korthys "heap," Lithuanian kerdžius "shepherd"). Herd instinct in psychology is first recorded 1908.

herd (v.)

mid-13c., “to watch over or herd (livestock);” of animals, “to gather in a herd, to form a flock,” late 14c., from herd (n.). Related: Herded; herding.

1. Stefano used a motor cycle to herd the sheep.

斯特凡諾騎一輛摩托車放羊。

來自柯林斯例句

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。

來自柯林斯例句

3. a herd of bison

一群野牛

來自《權威詞典》

4. a herd of cattle

一群牛

來自《權威詞典》

5. a herd of deer

一群鹿

來自《權威詞典》