Grad: od staroslovenski a voedno od starogrcki *gardiku: Ovde: :nesvest:
The name of the city, Graz ( see the Slavic settlement Grad), and some archaeological finds point to the erection of a small castle by South Slavic people[citation needed], which in time became a heavily defended fortification. In literary Slovene, gradec literally means "small castle", which is etymologically a hypocoristic derivative of Proto-West-South Slavic *gradьc', itself by means of liquid metathesis descending from Common Slavic *gardьc', by Slavic third palatalisation from Proto-Slavic *gardiku (cf. Ancient Greek toponym Γαρδίκι) originally denoting "small town, settlement".