garth
English
Etymology
From Middle English garth, from Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, thus cognate with Old English ġeard, whence English yard.
Pronunciation
Noun
garth (plural garths)
- A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters
- A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.
- a cloister garth
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part 2”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
- A clapper clapping in a garth / To scare the fowl from fruit.
- A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England
- (Germanic paganism) A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith Heathenry.
- 2014 November 18, Stubba, The Book of Blots[1], page 102:
- The Candidate for membership of Hof, Garth or Hearth shall hold an Armill, or he may touch an unsheathed Sword throughout the ceremony.
- (Germanic paganism) A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
- A dam or weir for catching fish.
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Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos; cognate with Old Church Slavonic градъ (gradŭ) and a doublet of yerd.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
garth (plural garthis)
- A garth (yard, croft, garden)
- (rare) Fencing; a barrier or boundary.
Descendants
References
- “garth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.
Etymology 2
Noun
garth
- Alternative form of gerth
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 or f (plural garthau or geirth)
Mutation
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