garth

See also: Garth and gárð

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑː(ɹ)θ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)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

   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part 2”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     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. (Germanic paganism) A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith 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.

Related terms

• fish garth
• gravegarth

Middle English

Etymology 1

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.

Alternative forms

• grath, garthe, gard, garde, gerth

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡarθ/

Noun

garth (plural garthis)

1. A garth (yard, croft, garden)
2. (rare) Fencing; a barrier or boundary.

Descendants

• English: garth
• Scots: garthe (obsolete)

References

• “garth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Etymology 2

Noun

garth

1. Alternative form of gerth

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gortos (compare Irish gort), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórts < *gʰórdʰs < *ǵʰortós (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Latin hortus, Old English geard).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɨarθ/
• Rhymes: -arθ

Noun

garth m or 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.

References

• 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