"garden" in seven languages
Meaninggarden
Spanish
/xaɾˈdin/
masc.borrowed · Old French jardin
French
/ʒaʁdɛ̃/
masc.inherited
Italian
/dʒarˈdino/
masc.borrowed · Old French jardin
Portuguese
/ʒahˈdʒĩ/
masc.borrowed · Old French jardin
Romanian
/grəˈdinə/
fem.other source · Slavic gradina 'enclosure, garden'
Catalan
/ʒəɾˈdi/
masc.borrowed · Old French jardin
English
/ˈgɑɹdən/
from Latin/French · Old North French gardin
The ancestor
Frankish *gard‘enclosure (Gallo-Roman *gardīnum)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A Germanic fenced plot, renamed in northern Gaul and exported to Spain and Italy with French gardening fashion. English yard and garden are the same Germanic word, one native, one via French.
English relatives: garden (via Norman French), yard (the native English distant cognate)
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In a sentence
- esLos niños juegan en el jardín.
- frLes enfants jouent dans le jardin.
- itI bambini giocano in giardino.
- ptAs crianças estão brincando no jardim.
- roCopiii se joacă în grădină.
- caEls nens juguen al jardí.
- enThe children are playing in the garden.