different between vinyard vs vineyard

English

Etymology

vine +? yard

Pronunciation

Noun

vinyard (plural vinyards)

1. Obsolete spelling of vineyard
   • 1533 (1651 pub.), Henry Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia

     […] therefore they who are more religiously and holily instructed, neither set a tree nor plant their vinyard, nor undertake any mean work without divine invocation […]

   • 1623,, Sir Francis Bacon, Letter to the Decipherer

     To the garden,

     Whose western side, circummured with brick,

     Is with a vinyard back’d.

     To that vinyard is a planchéd gate

     That makes his opening by a little door

     Which from the garden to the vinyard leads.

   • 1788 (1876 pub.), Mrs. Godwin Senior (as quoted by Charles Kegan Paul), William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, Henry S. King and Co. pub. (1876), p. 55

     […] she may not be as the fig-tree whome the master of the vinyard came seeking fruit and found none.

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References

"vinyard" in the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G & C. Merriam, 1828.

English

Alternative forms

• vinyard (obsolete)

Etymology

Equivalent to vine +? yard; from Middle English vyne?erd (circa 1300), following earlier Old English w?n?eard (“wine yard, vine yard”), with vine (from Old French vigne (“vine, vineyard”), from Latin v?nea) replacing native Old English w?n (“wine, vine”). The earlier w?n?eard may have had the sense of “vine” already, with /w/ ? /v/ facilitated by common v-/w- interchange. Compare Dutch wijngaard (literally “wine garden”) and German Weingarten alongside contracted Wingert. (Dutch gaard, German Garten are cognate to English yard.)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?v?n.j?d/

Noun

vineyard (plural vineyards)

1. A grape plantation, especially one used in the production of wine.

   The vineyard of Château Margaux stands as the producer of one of the world's greatest and most sought-after red wines.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• viticulture
• winery

References

Middle English

Noun

vineyard

1. Alternative form of vyne?erd