ert

Meaning

Verb

• To incite; urge on; encourage.
• To irritate; grill; provoke.
• To be eager, prone; hurry.
• To make as if to strike; argue (with); strive after; try to obtain.
• To strive onward and upward.

Origin

• From Middle English erten, ertin, from Old Norse erta ("to provoke, incite, tease"), from Proto-Germanic *artijaną ("to excite, tease"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erdi-, *h₂erd-. Cognate with Icelandic erta ("to irritate"), Norwegian erta ("to taunt"), Swedish ärta ("to tease, jibe"), Old Irish aird ("point, ord, end point"), Ancient Greek ἄρδις ("arrowhead").