gardin
Danish
Etymology
From German Gardine (“curtain”), from French courtine, from Old French cortine, from Medieval Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), from Latin cohors (“court, enclosure”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡardiːn/, [ɡ̊ɑˈd̥iːˀn]
- Rhymes: -in
Noun
gardin n (singular definite gardinet, plural indefinite gardiner)
Inflection
| neuter gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | gardin | gardinet | gardiner | gardinerne |
| genitive | gardins | gardinets | gardiners | gardinernes |
Middle English
Noun
gardin
- alternative form of gardyn
Norman
Alternative forms
- gardîn (Jersey)
Etymology
From Old Northern French gardin, Medieval Latin gardinus (“garden”) or oblique form of *gard, from Old Norse garðr (“yard, garden”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô, from *gardaz (“yard”). Compare French jardin, from Old French jardin.
Noun
gardin m (plural gardins)
- garden
- 2006, Nellie Duquemin, “Au haut du gardin”, in P'tites Lures Normanes, Cromwell Press, published 2006, page 38:
- Au haut des notre gardin y a en petit maisaon.
- At the top of our garden there is a privy.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Late Latin cortina, via German Gardine.
Noun
gardin m or f or n (definite singular gardinen or gardina or gardinet, indefinite plural gardiner or gardin, definite plural gardinene or gardina)
- a curtain
References
- “gardin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Late Latin cortina, via German Gardine.
Noun
gardin f (definite singular gardina, indefinite plural gardiner, definite plural gardinene)
gardin n (definite singular gardinet, indefinite plural gardin, definite plural gardina)
- a curtain
References
- “gardin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Early Medieval Latin gardīnus, of Germanic origin. See also English garden.
Noun
gardin oblique singular, m (oblique plural gardins, nominative singular gardins, nominative plural gardin)
- (Picard, Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French) garden (large outdoor area with plants and trees)
Descendants
- Middle French: jardin
- French: jardin (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: gardin, gardîn
- → Middle English: gardyn
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: jardin, jardim
- → Old Spanish: jardin
- Spanish: jardín
Swedish
Etymology
From Low German Gardine, from Early Modern Dutch gardine (contemporary Dutch gordijn), from French courtine, from Old French cortine, from Medieval Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), from Latin cohors.
Noun
gardin c
- a curtain (in front of a window)
- (in some compounds) a curtain, a drapery (more generally)
- sänggardin
- bed curtains
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | gardin | gardins |
| definite | gardinen | gardinens | |
| plural | indefinite | gardiner | gardiners |
| definite | gardinerna | gardinernas |
Derived terms
- gardinarrangemang
- gardinkappa
- gardinring
- gardinspringa
- gardinstång
- gardinuppsättning
- rullgardin
- tyllgardin
See also
- draperi
- förhänge (curtain in front of an opening rather than a window)
- ridå (curtain in a theater)
- skynke
References
- gardin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- gardin in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
- gardin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
Yagara
Noun
gardin
References
- State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Turubul Body Parts.