orchard

Orchard comes from Old English orċeard, a compound of *ort (from Proto-Germanic *urtiz, related to "wort" meaning plant) and ġeard, meaning "yard" or enclosure. So it originally meant something like "plant-yard."

Later English speakers, hearing the first part, mistakenly linked it to the unrelated Latin word hortus ("garden") — a false connection that stuck in people's minds even though the true root is Germanic.

It's built from the same pieces as "wort" and "yard" — literally a wort-yard, or plant enclosure, and it shares ancestry with Swedish örtagård ("herb garden") and Gothic aurtigards.