vineyard

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English

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Etymology

vine +‎ yard, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (circa 1300), following earlier Old English wīnġeard (wine yard, vine yard), with vine (from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French vigne (vine, vineyard), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vīnea) replacing native Old English wīn (wine, vine).[1] The earlier wīnġeard may have had the sense of “vine” already, with /w/ → /v/ facilitated by common v-/w- interchange.[2] Compare Dutch wijngaard (literally wine garden) and German Weingarten alongside contracted Wingert. (Dutch gaard, German Garten are cognate to English yard.)[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

vineyard (plural vineyards)

  1. A grape plantation.
    The vineyard of Château Margaux stands as the producer of one of the world's greatest and most sought-after red wines.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “vineyard”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ vīne, Middle English Dictionary