yerd

Presumably from the same origin as yard, from Old English ġerd (“branch, twig, stick”) or gierd, cognate with Middle Low German gêrde and Middle High German gęrte from Old High German gartia, from Proto-Germanic *gazdjō, derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰasdʰeh₂. May be related to English and Scots yerk (“to whip, beat, strike, especially with a stick”).

yerd (third-person singular simple present yerds, present participle yerding, simple past and past participle yerded)

1. (rare) To beat with a stick

• Dery, Drey, Drye, Dyer, Ryde, d'yer, drey, dyer

Inherited from Old English ġeard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos; cognate with Old Church Slavonic градъ (gradŭ) and a doublet of garth.

• yerde, ȝerd, ȝeerd, yeerd, ȝeard, yard, yarde, yorde, ȝarde, yherde, ȝorde, ȝeorde

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛːrd/, /ˈjɛrd/
• (Late ME) IPA^(key): /ˈjard/

yerd

1. A fenced piece of land; a yard:
   1. The property of a manor or other large rural dwelling.
   2. A churchyard; a piece of land around a church.
   3. A paddock; a field that has been fenced in.
2. A plot of land; a piece of property, especially agricultural.
3. A garden; a plot of horticultural land.

• English: yard
• Scots: yerd, yaird, yird

• “yē̆rd (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

From Old English ġerd.

yerd

1. Alternative form of ȝerde (“bar”)

From Middle English yerd, from Old English ġeard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz. Cognate with English yard.

yerd

1. earth, ground

• yerd-hunger