gardă
Moldavian
noun
Definitions
- guard, watch, guardsmen
- (slang) police
Etymology
Borrowed from French garde (guard) derived from Frankish *wardōn, *wardēn (protect, guard, keep) derived from Proto-Germanic *wardōną (defend, guard).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wardōną
Gloss
defend, guard
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- guard English
- observō, observare Latin
- wardo Latin
- wardō Latin
- arrière-garde French
- avant-garde French
- garde French
- garde-boue French
- garde-fou French
- garder French
- guarida Spanish, Castilian
- *wer- Proto-Indo-European
- *wardāną Proto-Germanic
- *wardōną Proto-Germanic
- garde Danish
- garder Danish
- guarde Old French
- gác Vietnamese
- *warda, *wardu Frankish
- *wardōn, *wardēn Frankish
- gardar Old Occitan
- guardari Sicilian