A Germanic 'enclosure' that traveled through Frankish into French and back to English via the Normans — its twin 'yard' stayed home.
A piece of ground used for growing flowers, fruit, or vegetables, typically enclosed and adjacent to a house. In British English, also the yard around a house.
The word 'garden' comes from Anglo-Norman 'gardin,' from Old North French 'gart' or 'gardin,' which derived from Frankish '*gardō' (enclosure), from Proto-Germanic '*gardaz' (enclosure, yard). The PIE root is '*gʰórdʰos' (enclosure), which also produced 'yard,' 'garth,' Latin 'hortus' (garden), and Russian 'gorod' (city). It is thus a Germanic word that traveled through
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