different between garth vs gawth

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(?)?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)?

  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

   • 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.
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

• gravegarth

Middle English

Alternative forms

• grath, garthe, gard, garde, gerth

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?órd?os; cognate with Old Church Slavonic ????? (grad?) and a doublet of yerd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar?/

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.

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gortos (compare Irish gort), from Proto-Indo-European *g?órts < *g?órd?s < *??ortós (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Latin hortus, Old English geard).

Noun

garth m or f (plural garthau or geirth)

1. cliff
2. enclosure

Mutation

English

Etymology

Phonetic respelling.

Noun

gawth (plural gawths)

1. (slang, ironic, sometimes derogatory) A goth (member of the subculture).

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