Herd, horde, and hoard are etymologically unrelated

I'm reading a book with a 'leader of the herd' and a 'leader of the horde' in it and I didn't realize I was confusing them for each other until the author made them fight over the same 'hoard'. That made me wonder if perhaps the same term had been borrowed into English a few different times for slightly different things, but etymonline says no!

Herd:

> Old English heord "herd, flock, company of domestic animals," also, rarely, "a keeping, care, custody," from Proto-Germanic herdo, from PIE kerdh- "a row, group, herd" (source also of Sanskrit śárdhah "herd, troop," Old Church Slavonic čreda "herd," Greek korthys "heap," Lithuanian kerdžius "shepherd"). Germanic cognates include Old Norse hjorð, Old High German herta, German Herde, Gothic hairda "herd."

Horde:

> 1550s, "tribe of Asiatic nomads living in tents," from West Turkic (compare Tatar urda "horde," Turkish ordu "camp, army"), borrowed into English via Polish, French, or Spanish. OED says the initial -h- seems to have been acquired in Polish. Transferred sense of "any uncivilized gang" is from 1610s. Related: Hordes.

And hoard:

> Old English hord "a treasure, valuable stock or store, an accumulation of something for preservation or future use," hence "any mass of things preserved by being deposited together," from Proto-Germanic huzdam (source also of Old Saxon hord "treasure, hidden or inmost place," Old Norse hodd, German Hort, Gothic huzd "treasure," literally "hidden treasure"), from PIE root (s)keu- "to cover, conceal."

Pretty interesting!

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