gard
Pronunciation: [ɡard]
“gard” is a Romanian word. Its meaning in English:
noun
In Romanian
- construcție de lemn, de metal, de zidărie etc. care împrejmuiește o curte, un teren, o grădină etc.
- împletitură de nuiele, de trestie etc. cu care se face un baraj de-a curmezișul unei ape curgătoare pentru prinderea peștelui.
- (sport) fiecare dintre obstacolele în formă de gard de la unele probe atletice de alergări; (la pl.) probă atletică în care se folosesc aceste obstacole.
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose, to encircle”); possibly a substrate word from a Dacian *garda, akin to Albanian gardh (or borrowed from it), or more likely an early borrowing from Proto-Slavic *gȏrdъ, perhaps predating the metathesis occurring in Slavic languages (however this is uncertain as other related terms such as grădină, ogradă, îngrădi had already undergone it…
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