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prettygoodwordgarth (GARTH) - n., an open rectangular courtyard attached to or surrounded by a building, a close; (arch.) a yard, a garden, a paddock.
Especially if surrounded by a cloister. From Middle English garth, from Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (which also gave us Old English ġeard, whence English yard), from PIE *gherdh-, to enclose (which also gave Russian grad, city, as in Leningrad, and Latin hortus, garden, as in horticulture).
---L.
Especially if surrounded by a cloister. From Middle English garth, from Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (which also gave us Old English ġeard, whence English yard), from PIE *gherdh-, to enclose (which also gave Russian grad, city, as in Leningrad, and Latin hortus, garden, as in horticulture).
---L.
