град
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
- grad Serbo-Croatian
- град-држава Serbo-Croatian
- градски Serbo-Croatian
- држава 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