Noun: garth
| Singular | garth |
| Plural | garths |
Sample Sentences
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a cloister garth
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A clapper clapping in a garth / To scare the fowl from fruit. [1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part 2”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:]
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The Candidate for membership of Hof, Garth or Hearth shall hold an Armill, or he may touch an unsheathed Sword throughout the ceremony. [2014 November 18, Stubba, The Book of Blots, page 102:]
Nouns inflected like garth
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos
5. Proto-Germanic *gardaz
6. Old Norse garðrbor.
7. Middle English garth
8. English garth
9. Inherited from Middle English garth, from Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, thus cognate with Old English ġeard, whence the English doublet yard, and also a doublet of garden. See: Middle English Nouns '
garth', Middle English Nouns '
garth', Old Norse Nouns '
garðr'.