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Etymology, English, Harvest

Etymology From Middle English harvest, hervest, from Old English hærfest (“autumn, harvest-time; August”), from Proto-West Germanic *harbist, from Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest-time, autumn, fall”), from *harbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-, ultimately derived from *(s)ker-(“to cut”). A general word for “to harvest” that had a tendency in some stocks to be specialized for the picking of…