See also: GORD, Gord, and горд

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Etymology 1

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Perhaps hollow, and so named in allusion to a gourd.

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gord (plural gords)

  1. (obsolete) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.[1]

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From Proto-Slavic *gordъ. Doublet of yard and garth.

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gord (plural gords)

  1. (archaeology) A medieval Slavonic fortified settlement, typically a group of wooden houses surrounded by a wall of earth and wood, with a palisade running along the top of the bulwark.

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Inherited from Latin gurdus.

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gord (feminine gorda, masculine plural gords, feminine plural gordes)

  1. (Valencia, Eivissa) fat
    Synonym: gras
  2. stale, old, dry
    Synonyms: dur, sec

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Dutch

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gord

  1. inflection of gorden:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

French

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Borrowed from Gaulish *gorton ‘hedge, enclosure’; cf. Irish gort, Cornish gorth, Welsh garth.

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gord m (plural gords)

  1. crawl, a stake enclosure at a body of water to catch fish

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Indo-Portuguese

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From Portuguese gordo (fat), from Old Galician-Portuguese gordo, from Latin gurdus.

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gord

  1. (Diu) fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one’s body)
    • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:
      Trasê tamêm um vaquinh bem gord e matá par nós comê e par nós regalá:
      Bring also a small and very fat cow and kill (it) for us to eat and for us to feast on:

Polabian

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gordъ.

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gord m inan

  1. castle; court

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gorďь.

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gord f

  1. barn

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  • Polański, Kazimierz (1971) “gord”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 2 (ďüzd – ľotü), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 170
  • Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “gord”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 66

Serbo-Croatian

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gъrdъ.

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gȏrd (Cyrillic spelling го̑рд, definite gȏrdī, comparative gordiji)

  1. proud
  2. arrogant

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  • gord”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024