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Orchard, a garden of fruit-trees. The older
form is ortgeard. We also find wyrtgeard, to translate Lat. promptuarium.
Ortgeard and wyrtgeard are mere variants, both signifying ‘wort-yard’, i.e.
yard of worts or vegetables. The form ort is due to a Teutonic type URTI, put
for WARTI; and the form wyrt to a Teut. WORTI, also put for WARTI.
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WORT, a
plant. A.S. wyrt, a wort. Closely allied to Wart and Root.
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YARD, an
enclosed space. A.S. geard, an enclosure, court. Russ. gorod. From the Teut.
base GARDA = Aryan GHARTA, a yard, court, enclosure. √ GHAR, to seize, hence to enclose. Skt. hri, to
take, Gk.χείρ, the hand.
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WART, a
small hard excrescence, on the skin, or on trees. A.S. wearte, pl. weartan.
From Teut. Type WARTAN or WARTA . The original sense
is ‘growth’, hence out-growth or excrescence. And it is closely related to
Wort.
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