Gerte

Meaning

crop (a whip without a lash)

Concepts

rod

riding crop

crop

switch

twig

birch

sprig

staff

wand

lash

whip

bough

bow

branch

limb

riding whip

Hyphenated as

Ger‧te

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Etymology

From Middle High German gerte, Old High German gartia (“rod, twig, staff”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaʀdi (“staff, rod, twig”).
Cognates:
Cognate with English yard (“unit of measurement”), Saterland Frisian Jädde (“crop, yard”), Dutch garde (“whisk, stick, yard”). Also related to Old Norse gaddr, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌶𐌳𐍃 (gazds), Latin hasta (“spear”).