gjǫrð

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *gerdō. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”). === Noun === gjǫrð f (genitive gjarðar, plural gjarðar or gjarðir) belt, girdle, saddle girth ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== gyrðill ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: gjörð Faroese: gjørð Norwegian: gjord, (dialectal) gjørd, gjuld, gjard, gjort Old Swedish: giorþ Swedish: gjord Danish: gjord Norwegian Bokmål: gjord Gutnish: gjård → Middle English: gerth, girth, gyrth English: girth Scots: girth === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “gjörð”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 166; also available at the Internet Archive