garth

See also Garth

English

Etymology

From Old Norse garðr (cognate with Old English ġeard, whence English yard).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡɑː(r)θ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)θ

  Homophones: Garth

Noun

garth (plural garths)

1. A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters
2. A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.

   a cloister garth

   • Tennyson

     A clapper clapping in a garth / To scare the fowl from fruit.

3. A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England
4. (paganism) A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith Heathenry.
5. (paganism) A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
6. A dam or weir for catching fish.

Related terms

• gravegarth

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Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gortos (compare Irish gort), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórts < *gʰórdʰs < *ǵʰortós (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Latin hortus, Old English geard).

Noun

garth m and f 

1. cliff
2. enclosure

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
garth	arth	ngarth	unchanged