yard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: yards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yaird
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
obsolete
form: yeard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: yerd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: yod
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: yards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yarded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: yaird
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Scotland
obsolete
form: yeard
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: yerd
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: yod
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
pos: noun
examples: '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.
gloss: The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
gloss: An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
pos: noun
examples: A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
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.
gloss: A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: One’s house or home.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
Multicultural-London-English
examples: 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
gloss: To confine to a yard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As they reached the door, Bose, having yarded the cows, was stealing around the corner of the pig-sty, and making for the woods.
The sheep were straggling in a manner that meant walking work to round them, and he supposed he would have to yard them tonight, if she didn't liven up.
Derived words: 18-yard box
a yard of pump water
balm yard
Burnt Yards
church-yard
cross-jack yard
dead yard
deer yard
do the hard yards
drop yard
fiddle yard
freight yard
get up the yard
go yard
hard yards
Hobbys Yards
horse-yard
hundred-yard stare
inn yard
kiloyard
livery yard
lumber yard
mosque yard
Mughal yard
no yards
pan-yard
rail yard
receiving yard
sail-yard
sale yard
salvage yard
shunting-yard algorithm
six-yard area
switching yard
thin as a yard of pump water
thousand-yard stare
timber yard
trap yard
victualling yard
wrecker's yard
wrecking yard
wreck yard
yard ape
yard arm
yard bird
yardbird
yard-boy
yard broom
yard dart
yard-dike
yard-dog
yard duty
yardfowl
yard fowl
yard-fowl
yardful
yard goat
yard grass
yard-grass
yardhove
yarding
yard light
yard-long bean
yard-long cucumber
yardman
yardmaster
yard-money
yard out
yardperson
yard pilot
yard rope
yard sale
yard slug
yardsman
yardswoman
yard trash day
yard-trash day
yard work
yard-work
the whole nine yards
yardage
yardland
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: gardh
lang: Albanian
word: oborr
lang: Albanian
word: bahçe
lang: Albanian
word: kurt
lang: Southern Altai
word: тӱнӱк
roman: tünük
lang: Arabic
word: حَدِيقَة
roman: ḥadīqa
lang: Armenian
word: բակ
roman: bak
lang: Aromanian
word: curti
lang: Asturian
word: portalada
lang: Asturian
word: antoxana
lang: Belarusian
word: двор
roman: dvor
lang: Belarusian
word: дво́рык
roman: dvóryk
lang: Bulgarian
word: двор
roman: dvor
lang: Burmese
word: ဝင်းခြံ
roman: wang:hkram
lang: Burmese
word: အိမ်ဝင်း
roman: im-wang:
lang: Catalan
word: pati
lang: Chechen
word: керт
roman: kert
lang: Chickasaw
word: kasbi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 院子
roman: yuànzi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 庭院
roman: tíngyuàn
lang: Coptic
word: ⲟⲛϩ
roman: onh
lang: Czech
word: dvůr
lang: Czech
word: dvorek
lang: Danish
word: gård
lang: Dutch
word: erf
lang: Esperanto
word: korto
lang: Estonian
word: õu
lang: Finnish
word: piha
lang: French
word: cour
lang: French
word: jardin
lang: Galician
word: eido
lang: Galician
word: resío
lang: Galician
word: quinteiro
lang: Galician
word: eira
lang: Georgian
word: ეზო
roman: ezo
lang: German
word: Hof
lang: Bavarian German
word: Huaf
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃
roman: gards
lang: Greek
word: αυλή
roman: avlí
lang: Greek
word: προαύλιο
roman: proávlio
lang: Pontic Greek
word: αυλαία
roman: avlaía
lang: Hebrew
word: חָצֵר
roman: ẖatzér
lang: Hindi
word: बाड़ा
roman: bāṛā
lang: Hungarian
word: udvar
lang: Hungarian
word: kert
lang: Hungarian
word: előkert
lang: Ingrian
word: tanvas
lang: Ingrian
word: kartano
lang: Italian
word: cortile
lang: Japanese
word: 庭
roman: niwa
lang: Khmer
word: ទីធ្លា
roman: tiithliə
lang: Korean
word: 뜰
roman: tteul
lang: Korean
word: 마당
roman: madang
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hewş
lang: Latin
word: ārea
lang: Latvian
word: pagalms
lang: Lithuanian
word: kiemas
lang: Macedonian
word: двор
roman: dvor
lang: Norman
word: bel
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: gård
lang: Occitan
word: pati
lang: Papiamentu
word: curá
lang: Persian
word: حیاط
roman: hayât
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Hoff (nds)
lang: Polish
word: podwórze
lang: Polish
word: podwórko
lang: Portuguese
word: quintal
lang: Portuguese
word: cercado
lang: Portuguese
word: pátio
lang: Romanian
word: curte
lang: Russian
word: двор
roman: dvor
lang: Russian
word: дво́рик
roman: dvórik
lang: Sardinian
word: apitu
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: дво̀рӣште
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: а̀влија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dvòrīšte
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: àvlija
lang: Slovak
word: dvor
lang: Slovene
word: dvorišče
lang: Spanish
word: patio
lang: Spanish
word: yarda
lang: Spanish
word: yadra
lang: Swedish
word: gård
lang: Swedish
word: trädgård
lang: Swedish
word: tomt
lang: Tày
word: cai
lang: Tày
word: coo̱ng
lang: Thai
word: ลาน
roman: laan
lang: Thai
word: สนาม
roman: sà-nǎam
lang: Turkish
word: avlu
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آولی
roman: avlı
lang: Ukrainian
word: двір
roman: dvir
lang: Ukrainian
word: дво́рик
roman: dvóryk
lang: Ukrainian
word: подві́р'я
roman: podvírʺja
lang: Vietnamese
word: sân
lang: Volapük
word: yad
lang: Walloon
word: coû
lang: Zazaki
word: isig