Gaarde

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Hunsrik[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German garte, from Old High German garto, from Proto-West Germanic *gardō.

Cognate with German Garten.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

Gaarde m (nominative plural Gäärde) (Boll spelling)

  1. garden
    Sie schafft im Gaarde.
    She's working in the garden.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Altenhofen, Cléo Vilson. (1996) Hunsrückisch in Rio Grande do Sul: Ein Beitrag zur Beschreibung einer deutschbrasilianischen Dialektvarietät im Kontakt mit dem Portugiesischen. Stuttgart: Steiner.
  2. ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Gaarde”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português [Riograndenser Hunsrickisch–Portuguese Dictionary]‎[1] (in Portuguese), 3 edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, pages 61–62

Pennsylvania German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare German Garten, English garden.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

Gaarde m (plural Gaarde)

  1. garden

References[edit]

  • Albert F. Buffington, Preston Albert Barba, A Pennsylvania German Grammar (19954)
  1. ^ Heinrich P. Kelz, Phonologische Analyse des Pennsylvaniadeutschen (1971, Hamburg: Buske)