gärde
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish gærþe (“fence, fenced in land”); compare Icelandic gerði and Danish gærde. Related to gård (“yard, farm”), Norwegian gard, Old English ġeard and English garden, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz.
Noun
gärde n
- a (cultivated and/or fenced in) field
Declension
Declension of gärde
Related terms
See also
References
- Gärde in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)
- gärde in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
- gärda, gärde in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Further reading
- gärde in Svensk ordbok.