The story
- Middle English · derived fromgirden
- English todaygride
From a metathetic variation of gird (“to strike, smite, upbraid, scold, jibe”), from Middle English girden, gerden (“to strike, thrust, smite”, literally “smite with a rod”), from gerd, yerd (“a rod, yard”). More at yard.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishgirden all →
gird
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.