different between hearth vs garth

English

Etymology

From Middle English herth, herthe, from Old English heorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *herþ, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“heat; fire”). Cognate with West Frisian hurd, Dutch haard, German Herd, Swedish härd.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /h???/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /h????/
• Rhymes: -??(?)?

Noun

hearth (plural hearths)

1. A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.

   • When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.

2. An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.

   Synonym: fireplace

3. The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
4. A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
5. (figuratively) Home or family life.
6. (Germanic paganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Hertha

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English herte, from Old English heorte, from Proto-West Germanic *hert?.

Noun

hearth

1. heart

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

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