wortyard

/ˈwɜːt.tʃəd/

wortyard means A garden where vegetables or herbs are grown. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.

wortyard is pronounced /ˈwɜːt.tʃəd/.

Etymology

From Middle English wortȝerd, woorteȝerd, wyrteard, from Old English wyrtġeard (“vegetable garden”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurtigard (“vegetable garden”), equivalent to wort + yard. Cognate with German Wurzgarten, Würzgarten, Swedish örtgård (“herb garden”).

noun

A garden where vegetables or herbs are grown.“For their wort-yards or orchards we must look not so much to the castle as to the monastery.”