garth
Middle English
/ɡarθ/
noun
Definitions
- A garth yard, croft, garden
- (rare) Fencing; a barrier or boundary.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse garðr (yard, enclosed space, garden, city) derived from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (enclosure, yard, court) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos (enclosure, hedge, city, fence).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰórdʰos
Gloss
enclosure, hedge, city, fence
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
垣, 柵
Emoji
🌆 🏙️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- fishgarth English
- garth English
- kirkgarth English
- gardinus Latin
- *gʰerdʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰórdʰos Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰortós Proto-Indo-European
- gard Norwegian Bokmål
- gård Norwegian Bokmål
- *gardaz Proto-Germanic
- *gardô Proto-Germanic
- gard Norwegian Nynorsk
- ġeard Old English
- Miklagarðr Old Norse
- garðr Old Norse
- gerða Old Norse
- gerði Old Norse
- kirkjugarðr Old Norse
- Ásgarðr Old Norse
- gård Danish
- *gȏrdъ Proto-Slavic
- garður Icelandic
- gardd Welsh
- garður Faroese
- garey Manx
- 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 Gothic
- *gard gmw-pro
- gard Old Saxon
- garþer Old Swedish
- безградьникъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- градъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- градьникъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- garrda Middle Irish
- ierde Old Frisian
- *garẟ- Proto-Albanian
- *gordos Proto-Balto-Slavic
- gardin ONF.
- gárð Scanian
- gart Norn