yard – English noun declension

English noun forms of yard

Noun: yard
Singularyard
Pluralyards

Sample Sentences

  • 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard. [1931, Francis Beeding, “2/2”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:]
  • Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases. [1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136:]
  • Man’s devilish cunt, tell me nutting about friends, that’s dead
  • Cuz I run up in yards,
  • No vest, tryna ching man’s chest
  • And leave him dead [2020 December 15, “We Paid (Remix)”, performed by #GS28 Goose, 0:15–0:21:]

Nouns inflected like yard

furlong, schnitzel, month, pound, bushel, acre, lion, mile, pair, year, yard,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos
5. Proto-Germanic *gardaz
6. Proto-West Germanic *gard
7. Old English ġeard
8. Middle English yerd
9. English yard
10. From Middle English yerd, yard, ȝerd, ȝeard, from Old English ġeard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”).
11. See also North Frisian guard, Guart (“garden, yard”), Dutch gaard, gaarde (“garden, yard”), German Garten (“garden, yard”), Danish, Swedish gård (“farm, estate, land; court, yard”), Faroese, Icelandic garður (“garden; fence”), Norn gart (“farm”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk gard, gård (“farm; townhouse”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 (gards, “court, yard; house”), Lithuanian gardas (“pen, enclosure”), Russian го́род (górod, “town”), Serbo-Croatian grad (“town”), Slovene grad (“castle”), Albanian gardh (“fence”), Romanian gard (“fence”), Avestan 𐬔𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬛𐬵𐬀 (gərədha, “dev's cave”), Sanskrit गृह (gṛha, “house, habitation, home, dwelling”)), Medieval Latin gardinus, jardinus (“garden, yard”). Doublet of garden, garth, and gord. See: Middle English Nouns 'yerd', Dutch Nouns 'gaard', German Nouns 'Garten', Swedish Nouns 'gård', Icelandic Nouns 'garður', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'gard', Gothic Nouns '𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃', Romanian Nouns 'gard'.

Verbs referencing "yard"

English Nouns garden, German Nouns Garten, Latin Nouns urbs, French Nouns yard, Catalan Nouns iarda, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns gard, Spanish Nouns yarda, German Nouns Yard, Danish Nouns gård, Finnish Nouns jaardi, Dutch Nouns gaard, Ukrainian Nouns ярд, German Nouns Gerte, Zulu Nouns iyadi.