gards
See also: gärds and gårds
English
Noun
gards
- plural of gard
Anagrams
- Grads, dargs, drags, grads
Gothic
Romanization
gards
- Romanization of 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃
Latvian
Etymology
From an old verb *gart (“to heat, to grow hot”), from the same stem as garša (“taste”) and gars (“spirit; vapor, steam”) (q.v.), all from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-, with an extra suffix -d.
The original meaning was presumably “heated” (e.g., cooked on a fire) > “prepared, ready” > “tasty.”[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɡâɾts]
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Adjective
gards (definite gardais, comparative gardāks, superlative visgardākais, adverb gardi)
- tasty, delicious (having pleasant taste)
- gards ēdiens ― delicious food
- gardas ogas ― delicious berries
- gards siers ― delicious cheese
- gardas pusdienas ― delicious lunch
- (figuratively) delicious, delightful (causing pleasant feelings)
- gardi smiekli ― delicious, delightful laughter
Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of gards
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
| nominative (nominatīvs) | gards | gardi | garda | gardas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | gardu | gardus | gardu | gardas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | garda | gardu | gardas | gardu | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | gardam | gardiem | gardai | gardām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | gardu | gardiem | gardu | gardām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | gardā | gardos | gardā | gardās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
Synonyms
- garšīgs
Derived terms
- gardums
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “gards”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN