different between gard vs yard

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(?)d/
• Homophones: garde, guard

Etymology 1

Old English gard, northern variant of ?eard (whence yard).

Noun

gard (plural gards)

1. (obsolete) A garden.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of F. Beaumont to this entry?)

     Trees of the gard.

Etymology 2

Noun

gard (plural gards)

1. Obsolete spelling of guard

Verb

gard (third-person singular simple present gards, present participle garding, simple past and past participle garded)

1. Obsolete spelling of guard

Anagrams

• Grad, darg, drag, grad

Gothic

Romanization

gard

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Kashubian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *g?rd?.

Noun

gard m

1. city

Kholosi

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ???? (gard).

Noun

gard ?

1. dust

References

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx?^[1], pages 13-36

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French guarde.

Noun

gard

1. Alternative form of garde

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse garðr.

Noun

gard

1. Alternative form of garth

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?órd?os, from the root *g?erd?- (“to enclose”).

Noun

gard m (definite singular garden, indefinite plural garder, definite plural gardene)

1. alternative form of gård

Derived terms

• gardbruker
• gardsarbeid
• prestegard

References

• “gard” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?órd?os, from the root *g?erd?- (“to enclose”). Akin to English yard.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /???r/

Noun

gard m (definite singular garden, indefinite plural gardar, definite plural gardane)

1. farm
2. townhouse (often in the compound bygard)
3. fence (often in the compounds skigard or steingard)
4. courtyard

Derived terms

References

• “gard” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• gardo

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?órd?os, from the root *g?erd?- (“to enclose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rd/

Noun

gard m

1. an enclosed place
2. yard, garden
3. court
4. region, land
5. dwelling

Descendants

• Middle Low German: gard
  • German Low German: Garrn

    Hamburgisch: Garrn

    Westphalian:

    Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Gäurn

    Westmünsterländisch: Gaorden, Gaorn, Guorden, Guorn, Gurden

  • Plautdietsch: Goaden

Romanian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?erd?- (“to enclose, to encircle”); possibly a substrate word from a Dacian *garda, akin to Albanian gardh (or borrowed from it), or more likely an early borrowing from Proto-Slavic *g?rd?, perhaps predating the metathesis occurring in Slavic languages (however this is uncertain as other related terms such as gr?din?, ograd?, îngr?di had already undergone it when borrowed from Slavic). Other suggested possibilities include a link to Proto-Germanic *gardaz.

Other Indo-European cognates include English garden, yard, gird, Sanskrit ??? (g?ha, “house, home”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (grad?), Gothic ???????????????????? (gards), German Garten, Danish gård and Norwegian gard, garde, gjerde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ard]

Noun

gard n (plural garduri)

1. fence

Declension

See also

• îngr?ditur? f

References

Volapük

Noun

gard (nominative plural gards)

1. guard

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /j??d/
• (General American) enPR: yärd, IPA^(key): /j??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English yerd, yard, ?erd, ?eard, from Old English ?eard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure, enclosed place, court, residence, dwelling, home, region, land; hedge”), from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Dutch gaard, obsolete German Gart, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål gård, Norwegian Nynorsk gard), from Proto-Indo-European *g?órd?os, from Proto-Indo-European *g?erd?- (“to enclose”) (Lithuanian gardas (“pen, enclosure”), Russian ?????? (górod, “town”), Albanian gardh (“fence”), Romanian gard, Avestan ????????????????????????????? (g?r?dha, “dev's cave”), Sanskrit ??? (g?ha)), Medieval Latin gardinus, Medieval Latin jardinus. Doublet of garden.

Noun

yard (plural yards)

1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
2. (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.

   Synonym: (UK) garden

3. An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
4. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
5. (Jamaican, MLE) One’s house or home.

Derived terms

See also Yard

Translations

Verb

yard (third-person singular simple present yards, present participle yarding, simple past and past participle yarded)

1. (transitive) To confine to a yard.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ?erde, yerd, ?erd, from Old English ?ierd (“branch; rod, staff; measuring stick; yardland”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga?d, from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz. Cognate with Dutch gard (“twig”), German Gerte and probably related to Latin hasta (“spear”).

Noun

yard (plural yards)

1. A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
2. Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
4. (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
   1. (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.
5. (obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.
6. (obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.
7. (obsolete, medicine) A penis.
8. (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
9. (obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.
   • a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, 57:

     You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.

10. (obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹?₂ feet.
11. (obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹?₄ acre.

Synonyms

• (arm length): See ell
• ($100): See hundred
• (surveying measure): See rod
• (large unit of area): See virgate
• (small unit of area): See rood

Hypernyms

• (unit of area): See virgate

Hyponyms

• (unit of area): See virgate

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of milliard.

Noun

yard (plural yards)

1. (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.

   I need to hedge a yard of yen.

References

Anagrams

• Dray, Dyar, Rady, adry, dray

Czech

Noun

yard m

1. yard (unit of length)

Further reading

• yard in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• yard in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

From English yard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja?d/

Noun

yard m (plural yards)

1. yard (unit of length)

Further reading

• “yard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From English yard

Noun

yard f (plural yards)

1. yard (unit of length)

   Synonym: iarda

Further reading

• yard in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• yaad, yawd

Etymology

From English yard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??d/, /j??d/
• Hyphenation: yard

Noun

yard

1. home

Noun

yard (plural: yard dem, quantified: yard)

1. yard

Further reading

• Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 617

Middle English

Noun

yard

1. Alternative form of yerd