Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Poisonous bodily fluid, especially venom of a venomous animal, such as a snake, dragon or other reptile; corrupt or morbid matter from the body, such as pus from a sore or wound; bitter substance, such as bile. · Moral corruption or corruptness; noxious or corrupt influence, poison to the soul, evil, anger, envy, hatred; destruction, death. · Epithelium produced on the tongue. · A scab; a dry sore.
to venom; sting · to discharge, as a sore; clot; curdle; cake
From Middle English atter, ater, from Old English āttor, ǣttor, ātor (“poison”), from Proto-West Germanic *aitr, from Proto-Germanic *aitrą (“gland, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyd-, *h₂oyd- (“tumor, abscess”), related to Ancient Greek οἶδος (oîdos, “swelling, tumour, abscess, produced by internal action”). Cognate with Scots attir (“corrupt matter, pus”), Scots atter, etter (“poison, venom”), Shetlandic eter (“poison; bitter cold”), Old Norse eitr, Icelandic eitur (“poison”), Faroese eitur, Norwegian eiter (“venom”), Swedish etter (“poison, venom, virulence”), Danish edder, ædder (“venom”), Saterland Frisian Atter (“pus”), Dutch etter (“pus”), German Eiter (“poison, pus”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionatterenm
- Inherited-form mentionāttorang
- Inherited-form mention*aitrgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*aitrągem-pro · gland, matter
- Derivation mention*h₂eyd-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionοἶδοςgrc
- Cognate mentionattirsco
- Cognate mentionattersco
- Cognate mentioneitrnon
- Cognate mentioneituris
- Cognate mentioneiturfo
- Cognate mentioneiterno
- Cognate mentionettersv
- Cognate mentionedderda
- Cognate mentionAtterstq
- Cognate mentionetternl
- Cognate mentionEiterde
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