garth

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑː(ɹ)θ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)θ

  Homophone: Garth

garth (plural garths)

1. A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters
2. A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.

   a cloister garth

   • Tennyson

     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. (paganism) A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith Heathenry.
5. (paganism) A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
6. A dam or weir for catching fish.

• gravegarth

• grath, garthe, gard, garde, gerth

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.

• IPA^(key): /ɡarθ/

garth (plural garthis)

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

• English: garth
• Scots: garthe (obsolete)

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

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

garth m or f (plural garthau or geirth)

1. cliff
2. enclosure