Etymology

park

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Today it means: A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like. Full definition →

Middle English park ← Old French parc ← Early Medieval Latin par(ri)cus
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park · noun, verb1

  1. Frankish*parrukbor.?
  2. Frankish*parrikbor.?
  3. Latin*parra
  4. Early Medieval Latinpar(ri)cus
  5. Old Frenchparc
  6. Middle Englishpark
  7. English todaypark

From Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen, fence”). Cognate with Dutch perk (“enclosure; flowerbed”), Old High German pfarrih, pferrih (“enclosure, pen”), Old English pearroc (“enclosure”) (whence modern English paddock), Old Norse parrak, parak (“enclosure, pen; distress, anxiety”), Icelandic parraka (“to keep pent in under restraint and coercion”). More at parrock, paddock.

Park · proper noun2

From park.

Park · proper noun3

  1. Korean · borrowed from박(朴)
  2. English todayPark

From Korean 박(朴) (Bak), under influence from Park and originally spelled and read from the perspective of the pronunciation of non-rhotic (e.g. British) English speakers.

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