different between garth vs girth

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

From Middle English girth, gerth, gyrth, from Old Norse gj?rð, from Proto-Germanic *gerd?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?erd?- (“to encircle, enclose; belt”). Cognate with Gothic ???????????????????????? (gairda), Icelandic gjörð. Also related to German Gurt, English gird, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie, bind, fasten”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)?

Noun

girth (countable and uncountable, plural girths)

1. A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.
2. The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
3. (informal) One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
   • Addison

     He's a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth.

4. A small horizontal brace or girder.
5. The distance measured around an object.
6. (graph theory) The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.

Synonyms

• circumference
• cinch

Derived terms

• girthen
• girthful
• girthless
• girthly
• girthsome
• girthy

Translations

Verb

girth (third-person singular simple present girths, present participle girthing, simple past and past participle girthed)

1. To bind as if with a girth or band.

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Anagrams

• grith, right