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Hertz is an Anglicized name of German origin, with 'herz' literally meaning 'heart' in English. This alternate spelling of 'Herz' with an additional 't' primarily arose during the 19th and 20th centuries as German-speaking immigrants travelled to English-dominant regions like North America.
Herz is a German surname meaning heart.Notable people with the surname include: Adam Herz, American writer and producer; Adolf Herz (1862–1947), Austrian engineer, inventor of Herz spark plug, photographer and first editor of Camera Magazine
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
Hertz (name), a German surname that has also been used as a given name. Heinrich Hertz, (1857–1894), German physicist after whom the unit of frequency was named; Gustav Hertz (1887–1975), German experimental physicist (see Franck–Hertz experiment)
Possibly "one" due to vowel being pronounced farther back in the mouth. At the time, and given those bearing the name, slowly becoming Old English "an", meaning "one'. But officially the etymology is unknown; see Förstemann, 181. aus, aust, eost: radiant; a goddess
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (/ h ɜːr t s /, HURTS; German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç hɛʁts]; [1] [2] 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. The SI unit of frequency, the hertz (Hz), is named after ...
Last week, Hertz Global Holdings announced that the rental car company would soon begin renting cars from Tesla Motors at two airport locations. Now, for $500 a day, renters can experience one of ...
When Lushootseed names were integrated into English, they were often recorded and pronounced very differently. An example of this is Chief Seattle. The name Seattle is an anglicisation of the modern Duwamish conventional spelling Si'ahl, equivalent to the modern Lushootseed spelling siʔaɫ Salishan pronunciation: [ˈsiʔaːɬ].