Third person singular present tense of 'hark': listens attentively, or turns one's attention to hearing.
From 'hark' (Old English heorcnian) plus the third-person singular present suffix '-s.' This is standard English conjugation.
'Hark' seems dead until you read any poem or old book, where suddenly characters are harking left and right—it reveals how dramatically conversational vocabulary has changed.
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