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From the French "garder" or "guarder," meaning "to keep."

From Stories from Tagore by Tagore, Rabindranath

The O. Fr. guarden, garden, mod. gardien, from guarder, garder, is of Teutonic origin, from the base war-, to protect, cf.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

The primitive Indo-European p-tr, Skeat takes to be formed, with the agent-suffix tr, from the radical pâ, "to protect, to guard,"—the father having been originally looked upon as the "protector," or "guarder."

From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.

But the guarder of the relic only seemed to turn his head by the smallest section of the compass.

From The Innocence of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)