orchard

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English word orchard comes from Old English ġeard, Proto-Germanic *wurt-, and later Proto-Germanic *urtiz (Field; garden. Plant.)

ġeard (Old English)

*wurt- (Proto-Germanic)

*urtiz (Proto-Germanic)

Field; garden. Plant.

*ort (Old English)

ortġeard (Old English)

orcherd (Middle English)

orchard (English)

A garden or an area of land for the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.. The trees themselves cultivated in such an area.

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