Saturday, October 29, 2011

town

gort : town

The Tarijan word for town is gort.

Gort is a last name. Gort is the name of the humanoid robot in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still.

In other languages:
In Dutch gort means pearl barley, groats. In Irish gort means field.

International locations:
Gort is the name of a places in Ireland and Kazakhstan.

How I came up with this word:
Gort is a mixture of the transliterated word for town in Russian which is gorod (город), and the transliterated word for town in Mongolian which is khot (хот).