a herdsman, herd, herder of a flock of animals · a pastoral (clerical) guide · a sheepdog
çekim: çoğul herders
köken: From Middle Dutch herder, earlier herde from Proto-Germanic *herdō (“herd”) + agent suffix -e; the agent suffix -er replaced -e when the latter fell in disuse as signifying agency.
a flock (group of animals (or people, by extension, often emphasizing lack of independence or the like)) · a murder (of crows) · a muster (of peafowl)
çekim: çoğul flockar · tamlayan flocks
köken: From Old Swedish flokker, flukker, from Old Norse flokkr, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz. Cognate with Faroese flokkur, Icelandic flokkur, Norwegian flokk, and Danish flok.
to drive, to herd, to chase (to make people or animals head to a certain place by moving in a certain way) · to drive, to solicit (to make someone undertake a certain activity that will benefit someone else) · to drive, to solicit (to force someone to do something)
köken: From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *kъrdo, from Proto-Indo-European *kerdʰ-. Doublet of cireadă and ciurdă. Compare Serbo-Croatian кр̏до/kȑdo (“herd”), English herd.
From Middle High German hert, from Old High German herta, from Proto-West Germanic *herdu. The modern consonantism is Central and Low German (compare Middle Low German hērde). Cognate with English herd, Danish hjord, Swedish hjord, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌰 (hairda).