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English word origin

Etymology of wode

From Middle English wode, from Old English wōd (“mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous”), from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (compare Middle Dutch woet > Dutch woede, Old High German wuot > German Wut (“fury”), Ol

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Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗
adj

Mad, angry, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From Middle English wode, from Old English wōd (“mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous”), from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (compare Middle Dutch woet > Dutch woede, Old High German wuot > German Wut (“fury”), Old Norse óðr, Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 (wōds, “demonically possessed”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t-ós, from *weh₂t- (“excited, possessed”) (compare Latin vātēs (“seer, prophet”), Old Irish fáith (“seer”), Welsh gwawd (“song”)).

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Source etymology 2

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noun

Obsolete spelling of woad.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

See woad.

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