garth

See also: Garth and gárð

English

Etymology

From Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, thus cognate with Old English ġeard, whence English yard.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɑː(ɹ)θ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(r)θ
    Homophone: Garth

Noun

garth (plural garths)

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

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, f (plural garthau or geirth)

  1. cliff
  2. enclosure

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
garth arth ngarth unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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