See also: Garth and gárð

English

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle English garth, from Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, thus cognate with Old English ġeard, whence the English doublet yard.

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garth (plural garths)

  1. A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters.
  2. A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.
    a cloister garth
  3. A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England
  4. (Germanic paganism) A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith of 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.
  5. (Germanic paganism) A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
  6. A dam or weir for catching fish.
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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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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.

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garth (plural garthis)

  1. A garth (yard, croft, garden)
  2. (rare) Fencing; a barrier or boundary.
Descendants
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  • English: garth
  • Scots: garthe (obsolete)

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Etymology 2

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garth

  1. Alternative form of gerth

Welsh

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Celtic *gortos (cognate with Irish gort), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórts < *gʰórdʰs < *ǵʰórtos (enclosure, yard) (cognate with Latin hortus, Old English ġeard).

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garth m (plural garthau)

  1. promontory
    Synonyms: pentir, penrhyn
  2. enclosure, fold, pen

Mutation

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Mutated forms of garth
radical soft nasal aspirate
garth arth ngarth unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “garth”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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