11-01-2005, 01:42 PM
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First recorded activity by GardenBanter: Dec 2004
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Originally Posted by Sacha
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Garden, garth and yard all derive from the "enclosure" sense of *gher-. the Indo-European root *gher- which had the meaning of "to grasp" or "to enclose". http://www.takeourword.com/TOW149/page1.html
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