Let me see:
1. "Celts" controlled most of Europe during bronze age and early iron age.
2. They were a military society living in hillforts
3. There is a construction in gaelic "gar do" close to, which is what you do when you are guarding something like cattle or a chieftain which gives meaningful root to word guard and verb to guard
4. There is no such a root in german or frankish
And you still think that it was germans who invented the word guard and verb to guard?
Don't you think that it could be that germans, hearing gardo, gardo all the time associated the word with guarding something and started using it in its bastardized form?
and what about this:
Irish gaelic
gar m (genitive gair, nominative plural garanna)
nearness, proximity
Scots gaelic
Pronoun
gar
us (direct object)
Cò a bhios gar cuideachadh? - Who will help us?
from close (together, us)
Verb
gar (verbal noun garadh)
warm
a' garadh an làmhan ris an teine - warming their hands at the fire
to worm yourself. this is truly ancient, as people used to huddle together to worm themselves before fire was "invented".
So you can build nouns and verbal nouns from adjectives....
Guys you should be proud of your language. it has preserved some of the oldest European words.
Question:
Is it possible that Slavic Gard, Gord, Gorod, Garod, Hrad all meaning place where people live close together and are guarded by high walls (ard to elevate or elevated, ga spear, javelin) also comes from "celtic" root to be together, on the high ground guarded by people with spears? Is it possible that Slavs in central Europe, who built gards, got the word from the "celts" who also lived there
Just to add that germans did not build gards they built burgs....
of course there is also this:
gar
Quote:
From Middle English gar, gare, gere, gore, from Old English gār (“spear, dart, javelin, shaft, arrow, weapon, arms”), from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear, pike, javelin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰayso- (“pointed stick, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey- (“to drive, move, fling”). Cognate with West Frisian gear, Dutch geer (“pointed weapon, spear”), German Ger (“spear”), Norwegian geir (“spear”), Icelandic geir (“spear”). Related to gore.
Quote:
Old Irish has gae "spear"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period_spearQuote:
A gord is a medieval Slavic fortified settlement, also occasionally known as a burgwall or Slavic burgwall after the German name for these sites. The ancient peoples were known for building wooden fortified settlements. The reconstructed Centum-satem isogloss word for such a settlement is g'herdh, gordъ, related to the Germanic *gard and *gart (as in Stuttgart etc.). This Proto-Slavic word (*gordъ) for town or city, later differentiated into grad (Cyrillic: град), gard,[1][2] gorod (Cyrillic: город), etc.[3][4][5] The most explicit derivatives from grad are the Croatian word Gradjanski (Croatian: Građanski) and the Russian word Grazhdanye (Russian: Граждане) both means citizens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gord_(archaeology)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gardQuote:
Slavic names: Prior to the medieval Ostsiedlung, Slavic languages like Polabian, Sorbian, Pomeranian, and Slovenian were spoken in the eastern parts of the Holy Roman Empire. The German settlers and administration in many cases adopted existing Wendish placenames, for example Rostock (from Old Polabian rostok, "river fork"), Dresden (from Sorbian Drežďany), and Berlin (possibly from a Polabian word meaning "Swamp"). For the same reason, many German placenames ending in -anz (e.g. Ummanz), -gard (e.g. Burg Stargard), -gast (e.g. Wolgast), -itz (e.g. Lancken-Granitz), -ow (e.g. Gützkow), and -vitz or -witz (e.g. Malschwitz) have Slavic roots. Due to spelling and pronunciation changes over the centuries, the original Wendish term in most cases is not preserved. Also, some placenames combine a German with a Wendish term (e.g. Altentreptow). The German suffix -au can be related to the Slavic -ow and -ov when derived from the Old German spelling (u= w =double u; e.g. Prenzlau was earlier spelled Prenzlow).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_placename_etymologyQuote:
Similar strongholds were built during the late Bronze and early Iron Ages by the people of the Lusatian culture (ca. 1300 BC – 500 BC), and later in the 7th - 8th centuries CE in modern-day Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and eastern Germany. These settlements were usually founded on strategic sites such as hills, riverbanks, lake islands or peninsulas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gord_(archaeology)
In light of all this, what do you think?
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