garth

Meaning

Noun

• A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters
• A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.
• A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England
• A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith Heathenry.
• A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
• A dam or weir for catching fish.

Origin

• From Middle English garth, from Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, thus cognate with Old English ġeard, whence English yard.