English
Garden of Eden
Calque of Biblical Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן (gan ʿḗḏen).
Made of the words Garden + of + Eden
Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- ‘to enclose’
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Proto-Germanic *gardô ‘hedge, fence; enclosure’
Frankish *gardō ‘enclosure, yard’
Anglo-Norman gardin
Middle English gardyn
English Garden
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
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Proto-West Germanic *ab
Old English æf
Old English of ‘from’
Middle English of
English of
Biblical Hebrew עֵדֶן
English Eden
Today it means
name In the Book of Genesis of the Bible and Surat Sad of the Qur'an, a garden at the source of the Gihon, Pishon, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers, where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Garden of Eden