Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The plant Isatis tinctoria. · The blue vat dye made from the leaves of the plant through partial drying and fermentation.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo plant or cultivate woad. · To dye with woad.
From Middle English wode, from Old English wād (“woad”), from Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz (“woad”), from Proto-Indo-European *woydʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian wēd (“woad”), Dutch wede (“woad”), German Waid (“woad”), and with French guède, Italian guado (“woad”) (both borrowed from Frankish). See also weed.
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