köken: From Middle High German hirs, from older hirʐ(e), from Old High German hiruz, from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz. Cognate with Dutch hert, English hart. When the Old High German -u- was lost by syncope (in inflected forms), the fricative /s̄/ came to stand after a consonant, which regularly it never did. This anomaly was then removed by replacing /s̄/ either with /s̠/…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ ? Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂wós Proto-Italic *kerwos Latin cervus Old Spanish ciervo Spanish ciervo Inherited from Old Spanish ciervo, from Latin cervus.
köken: Inherited from Old Czech jelen, from Proto-Slavic *(j)elenь, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-en-i-, which is often being connected with *h₁el- (“yellow-brown”). Its Slavic cognates are Polish jeleń (“deer”) or Russian оле́нь (olénʹ, “deer”), other Indo-European cognates are Lithuanian élnis or álnis (“deer”), Old Irish elit (“roe deer”), Welsh elain (“hind”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “deer”)…
köken: Compound of fia (“deer”). It is unclear whether the first element is carr (“cart, wagon”), carr (“spear”), carr (“scab”), carr (“mouth, face”) or a cranberry morpheme with no independent existence.
köken: Inherited from Old Ruthenian олень (olenʹ), from Proto-Slavic *(j)elenь.
Etimoloji
From Proto-Finnic *hirvas, borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śirwas. Cognate with Northern Sami sarvvis, which must have either been borrowed directly from Balto-Slavic or (more likely) come via Finnic before *š became h. Doublet of sarvas.