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Etymology 1

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos
Proto-Germanic *gardaz
Proto-West Germanic *gard
Old English ġeard
Middle English yerd
English yard

    From Middle English yerd, yard, ȝerd, ȝeard, from Old English ġeard (“yard, garden, fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”).

    See also North Frisian guard, Guart (“garden, yard”), Dutch gaard, gaarde (“garden, yard”), German Garten (“garden, yard”), Danish, Swedish gård (“farm, estate, land; court, yard”), Faroese, Icelandic garður (“garden; fence”), Norn gart (“farm”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk gard, gård (“farm; townhouse”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 (gards, “court, yard; house”), Lithuanian gardas (“pen, enclosure”), Russian го́род (górod, “town”), Serbo-Croatian grad (“town”), Slovene grad (“castle”), Albanian gardh (“fence”), Romanian gard (“fence”), Avestan 𐬔𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬛𐬵𐬀 (gərədha, “dev's cave”), Sanskrit गृह (gṛha, “house, habitation, home, dwelling”)), Medieval Latin gardinus, jardinus (“garden, yard”). Doublet of garden, garth, and gord.

    Noun

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    yard (plural yards)

    1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
      • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
        'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
    2. (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
      Synonym: (UK) garden
    3. An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
      • 1931, Francis Beeding, “2/2”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps‎[1]:
        A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
      • 1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136:
        Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.
    4. A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
    5. (Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home.
      • 2020 December 15, “We Paid (Remix)”, performed by #GS28 Goose, 0:15–0:21:
        Man’s devilish cunt, tell me nutting about friends, that’s dead
        Cuz I run up in yards,
        No vest, tryna ching man’s chest
        And leave him dead
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