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From: David Barrow <davidab at telefonica.net.pe>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2005.07.19 (02) [E]

> From: Ben J. Bloomgren <godsquad at cox.net>
> Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2005.07.17 (14) [E]
>
> "Wardôn Frankish Garder - French, to keep"
>
> Henno, Ron and all, is this where we get the broad term "ward?" Do all of
> its meanings come from Wardôn, or have some come through other means?
> Ben
>
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From:
http://www.etymonline.com/

David Barrow

ward (n.)     O.E. weard "a guarding, a watchman, a sentry," from W.Gmc.
*wardo (cf. O.S. ward, O.N. vörðr, O.H.G. wart). Used for administrative
districts (at first in the sense of guardianship) from 1378; of hospital
divisions from 1749. Meaning "minor under control of a guardian" is from
1433. Ward-heeler is 1890, from heeler "loafer, one on the lookout for
shady work" (1870s).

ward (v.)     O.E. weardian "to keep guard," from P.Gmc. *wardojan- (cf.
O.S. wardon, O.N. varða "to guard," O.Fris. wardia, M.Du. waerden "to
take care of," O.H.G. warten "to guard, look out for, expect," Ger.
warten "to wait, wait on, nurse, tend"), from *wardo- (see ward (n.)).
Fr. garder, It. guardare, Sp. guardar are Gmc. loan-words. Meaning "to
parry, to fend off" (now usually with off) is recorded from 1571.

warden     c.1225, "one who guards," from O.N.Fr. wardein, from Frankish
*warding- (cf. O.Fr. guardenc), from *wardon "to watch, guard" (see ward
(v.)). Meaning "governor of a prison" is recorded from c.1300.

wardrobe     1387, "room where wearing apparel is kept," earlier "a
private chamber" (c.1300), from O.N.Fr. warderobe, variant of O.Fr.
garderobe "place where garments are kept," from warder "to keep, guard"
(see ward (v.)) + robe "garment" (see robe). Meaning "a person's stock
of clothes for wearing" is recorded from c.1400. Sense of "movable
closed cupboard for wearing apparel" is recorded from 1794. Meaning
"room in which theatrical costumes are kept" is attested from 1711.

-ward     adv. suffix expressing direction, O.E. -weard "toward," lit.
"turned toward," sometimes -weardes, with genitive singular ending of
neuter adjectives, from P.Gmc. *warth (cf. O.S., O.Fris. -ward, O.N.
-verðr), variant of PIE *wert- "to turn, wind," from base *wer- "to
turn, bend" (see versus). The original notion is of "turned toward."

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From: R. F. Hahn <lowlands-l at lowlands-l.net>
Subject: Etymology

Looking even farther afield in Indo-European, this makes you think of words 
like the following, all meaning 'warm', in some cases also 'hot':

Sanskrit: घर्म gharma
Nepali: गर्म् garm
Hindi: गर्म garma
Urdu: ﮔرﻡ garm
Balochi: ﮔرﻡ garm
Marathi: गरम garama
Punjabi: ਗਰਮ੍ garm
Gujarati: ગરમ gĕrĕm
Bengali: গরম gawrom
Farsi: ﮔرﻡ garm
Kurdish: ﮔرﻡ герм germ
Armenian: ջերմ yerm
Greek: θερμός thermós
Lowlandic: warm
Proto-Germanic: *warmo-, *werm-
Indo-European: *gwhormo-, *gwermo-

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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