English

gurry-butt

From gurry + butt (“cart”).

A compound of gurry + butt ‘cart’

Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- ‘to enclose’

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Sanskrit *गृध ‘fort’

Prakrit 𑀕𑀠 ‘fort’

Hindi गढ़ ‘fort’

Hindi गढ़ी ‘fort’

English gurry

Old English byt ‘small piece of land’

Middle English but ‘goal, mark, butt of land’

English butt

Today it means

noun A horse- or ox-drawn cart used for carrying dung.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / gurry-butt