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Webster 1913 Edition
Garth
Webster 1828 Edition
Garth
GARTH
, n.1.
A dam or wear for catching fish.2.
A close; a little backside; a yard; a croft; a garden. [Not used.]Definition 2024
Garth
garth
garth
English
Noun
garth (plural garths)
- A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters
- A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.
- a cloister garth
- Tennyson
- A clapper clapping in a garth / To scare the fowl from fruit.
- A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England
- (paganism) A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith Heathenry.
- (paganism) A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
- A dam or weir for catching fish.
Related terms
- gravegarth
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *gortos (compare Irish gort), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórts < *gʰórdʰs < *ǵʰortós (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Latin hortus, Old English geard).
Noun
garth m, f (plural garthau or geirth)
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
garth | arth | ngarth | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |