gouardar

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

gardar (Old Beaujolais) gardé, gardè, gârdé, gardô (Bressan) vouèrdâ (Fribourgeois) garda (Genevois) gadger (Jurassien) garder (Neuchâtelois) vardà, vardê (Piemontais) gardé, vardà, vardé (Valdôtain)

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin wardāre.

Verb

gouardar

1. to guard

Notes

⟨gou⟩ is an orthographic compromise between dialects with [ɡ] or [ɡw] and dialects with [w], [v], or [vw].

References

• garder in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• gouardar in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 626: “garder” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*wardôn”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 510