An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Hort

by Friedrich Kluge

Hort, masculine (like Halle, Heim, and Gau, revived in the last century, after being long forgotten, by the study of Middle High German), from the equivalent Middle High German hort, masculine, Old High German hort, neuter, ‘hoard’; Old Saxon hord (horth), neuter, ‘treasure,’ also ‘hidden, innermost room,’ Anglo-Saxon hord, neuter and masculine, ‘treasure, store,’ English hoard; Gothic huzd, ‘treasure,’ Old Icelandic hodd, neuter, hoddr, masculine, ‘treasure.’ Teutonic hozda-, from Teutonic kuzdhó- for kudhto-, participle ‘that which is hidden’ (compare Greek κεύθω, see also Hütte, Haus), Greek κύσθος, any ‘hollow,’ especially ‘pudenda muliebria.’