grad

Serbo-Croatian

/ɡrâːd/, /ɡrâd/, /ɡrâːd/

noun

Definitions

city, town
fortress, castle
(usually after the proposition m) downtown, city centre

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gȏrdъ (enclosed place, settlement).

Origin

Proto-Slavic

*gȏrdъ

Gloss

enclosed place, settlement

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

город Russian
*gardaz Proto-Germanic
gród Polish
*gȏrdъ Proto-Slavic
hrad Czech
država Serbo-Croatian
grad-država Serbo-Croatian
gradonačelnik Serbo-Croatian
gradski Serbo-Croatian
град Serbo-Croatian
gard Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
град Bulgarian
град Macedonian
город Ukrainian
hrad Slovak
горад Belarusian
grad Slovene
градъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
grod Lower Sorbian
*gordos Proto-Balto-Slavic
gard Kashubian
grad Molise Croatian