gird
/ɡɝd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.22 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large."
- "We heere create thee the firſt Duke of Suffolke, / And girt thee with the Sword. Coſin of Yorke"
- "Gird thy sword vpon thy thigh, O most mightie: with thy glory and thy maiestie."
- "a castle girded with a moat"
- "The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear."
- "And he put vpon him the coate, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the Ephod vpon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the Ephod, and bound it vnto him therewith."
Etymology
From Middle English girden, gerden, gürden, from Old English gyrdan (“to put a belt around, to put a girdle around”), from Proto-Germanic *gurdijaną (“to gird”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian gurdzje, girdzje, Dutch gorden, German gürten, Swedish gjorda, Icelandic gyrða, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie together by weaving, to bind”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *gʰerdʰ-, girden, gyrdan, *gurdijaną, *gyrdan
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡɝd/
- British English: /ɡɜːd/