градъ

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *gordъ (“settlement, enclosed place”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Balto-Slavic *gordos, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos, *ǵʰortós.

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian gardas (“garden”).

Other Indo-European cognates include English garden, yard, gird, Sanskrit गृह (gṛha, “house, home”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 (gards), German Garten, Danish gård, Norwegian gard, Romanian gard and Albanian gardh.

Noun

градъ • (gradŭ) m

1. city, town

Declension

Case	Singular	Dual	Plural
nominative	градъ	града	гради
genitive	града	градоу	градъ
dative	градоу	градома	градомъ
accusative	градъ	града	градꙑ
instrumental	градомь	градома	градꙑ
locative	градѣ	градоу	градѣхъ
vocative	граде	—	—

Derived terms

• Цѣсар҄ь Градъ (Cěsarʹĭ Gradŭ)

Descendants

• Bulgarian: град (grad)
• Russian: град (grad)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *gradъ, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *greh₃d-. Cognate with Latin grandō, Lithuanian gruodas and Old Armenian կարկուտ (karkut).

Noun

градъ • (gradŭ) m

1. hail