"A Garden of Eden, just made for two With nothing to mar our joy."
A garden was originally some sort of enclosed space. The word comes from Norman French jardin (as in modern French) but probably has the same (Germanic) roots as yard, the now rare English garth, and further back, perhaps the ancient Greek and Latin hortus.
In fact it may be connected with court (so courtyard might mean yardyard) and (suprisingly perhaps) with cohort, but presumably a cohort was originally a group of soldiers within an enclosure.
Paradise comes from Greek paradisos, which I think is a from an ancient Persian word for a walled deerpark, but came to mean an enclosed garden in Greek and of course gives us paradise. So the Garden of Eden was literally a Paradise.
Gardening Time
"A Garden of Eden, just made for two
With nothing to mar our joy."
A garden was originally some sort of enclosed space. The word comes from Norman French jardin (as in modern French) but probably has the same (Germanic) roots as yard, the now rare English garth, and further back, perhaps the ancient Greek and Latin hortus.
In fact it may be connected with court (so courtyard might mean yardyard) and (suprisingly perhaps) with cohort, but presumably a cohort was originally a group of soldiers within an enclosure.
Paradise comes from Greek paradisos, which I think is a from an ancient Persian word for a walled deerpark, but came to mean an enclosed garden in Greek and of course gives us paradise. So the Garden of Eden was literally a Paradise.