gord

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See also: GORD, Gord, and горд

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɡɔː(ɹ)d/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

Etymology 1[edit]

Perhaps hollow, and so named in allusion to a gourd.

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Noun[edit]

gord (plural gords)

  1. (obsolete) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.[1]

Etymology 2[edit]

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Noun[edit]

gord (plural gords)

  1. (archaeology) A medieval Slavonic fortified settlement, typically a group of wooden houses surrounded by a wall of earth and wood, with a palisade running along the top of the bulwark.

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Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin gurdus.

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Adjective[edit]

gord (feminine gorda, masculine plural gords, feminine plural gordes)

  1. (Valencia, Eivissa) fat
    Synonym: gras
  2. stale, old, dry
    Synonyms: dur, sec

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Dutch[edit]

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Verb[edit]

gord

  1. inflection of gorden:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Gaulish *gorton ‘hedge, enclosure’; cf. Irish gort, Cornish gorth, Welsh garth.

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Noun[edit]

gord m (plural gords)

  1. crawl, a stake enclosure at a body of water to catch fish

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Indo-Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Portuguese gordo (fat), from Old Galician-Portuguese gordo, from Latin gurdus.

Adjective[edit]

gord

  1. (Diu) fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one’s body)
    • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:
      Trasê tamêm um vaquinh bem gord e matá par nós comê e par nós regalá:
      Bring also a small and very fat cow and kill (it) for us to eat and for us to feast on:

Polabian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gordъ.

Noun[edit]

gord m ?

  1. castle; court

Etymology 2[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gorďь.

Noun[edit]

gord f

  1. barn

References[edit]

  • Polański, Kazimierz (1971) “gord”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), numbers 2 (ďüzd – ľotü), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 170
  • Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “gord”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 66

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gъrdъ.

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Adjective[edit]

gȏrd (definite gȏrdī, comparative gordiji, Cyrillic spelling го̑рд)

  1. proud
  2. arrogant

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Further reading[edit]

  • gord” in Hrvatski jezični portal