Word Family
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)