park
Lower Sorbian
/park/
noun
Definitions
- park piece of ground, in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation
Etymology
Borrowed from German Park (park, l) derived from Old French parc (livestock pen) derived from Latin parcus derived from Frankish *parric (enclosure, pen) derived from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (fence, enclosure, enclosed land, fencing).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*parrukaz
Gloss
fence, enclosure, enclosed land, fencing
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
垣, 柵
Emoji
🤺
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- park English
- la, parcus Latin
- parcus Latin
- parcus, parricus Latin
- parricus Latin
- Freizeitpark German
- Nationalpark German
- Park German
- Parklandschaft German
- Parkschein German
- Tierpark German
- Vergnügungspark German
- parco Italian
- parc French
- парк Russian
- parco Spanish, Castilian
- *parrukaz Proto-Germanic
- pearroc Old English
- park Middle English
- parrak Old Norse
- parc Old French
- park Middle Dutch
- parc Middle French
- *parruk Old Dutch
- *parric Frankish
- *parrik Frankish
- *parrik, *parruk Frankish