*gher- (2)

The core idea of this root was:

gasping, enclosing

There’s quite a variety of offspring, but the core theme is present in most of them, as they’re either about a delimited area or our waist :)
Here’s a little (incomplete) overview:

• girth
• girdle
• garden 
• hangar
• yard
• court, courtesy
• -grad (The Slavic stem for city)
• orchard
• choir (Originally, the people singing would dance in a circle)
• choral
• Midgard (literally “the middle realm”)
• Asgard (literally “the God realm”)
• Hildegard, Hilda (protecting maid)