The proper name “Achird” seems to have been applied in recent times and has no clear meaning, one unsupported source suggesting “girdle.” Better really to know it by its Greek letter name of Eta Cas.
If after the flocks have left the pasture and been shut up in the common fold at the city gate, any shepherd let them into a field and they graze there, this shepherd shall take possession of the field which he has allowed to be grazed on, and at the harvest he must pay sixty gur of corn for every ten gan.
Achird (stars.astro.illinois.edu) ACHIRD (Eta Cassiopeiae). At almost fourth magnitude (3.44) and faint to the eye, and not a part of the traditional outline of Cassiopeia, Achird is often neglected.