Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryNow chiefly as the second element in the names of plants: a plant used for food or medicine. · Chiefly in the plural: a plant of the genus Brassica used as a vegetable; a brassica; especially, a cabbage (Brassica oleracea). · A non-vascular plant growing on land from the division Anthocerotophyta (the hornworts) or Marchantiophyta (liverworts); an anthocerotophyte or marchantiophyte.
PIE word *wréh₂ds From Middle English wort, wurt, wyrte (“any herb or plant; herb or plant used as food or medicine; (specifically) cabbage or vegetable of the genus Brassica; (chiefly plural) dish of cooked vegetables”) [and other forms], from Old English wyrt (“a plant; vegetable; herb, spice”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *wurti (“a root; a spice”), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts (“a root”), from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“a root”). Doublet of root and related to orchard. Cognates * Old Dutch wort (“herb; plant”) (Middle Dutch wort (“herb; root”)) * Old High German wurz (“herb; root; spice”) (Middle High German wurz, modern German Wurz) * Old Norse jurt, urt (“herb”) (Icelandic jurt, Norwegian urt, Old Danish urt (modern Danish urt), Old Swedish yrt (“plant”) (modern Swedish ört)) * Old Saxon wurt (“herb; plant; root”) (Middle Low German wort, wurt)
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionwortenm
- Inherited-form mentionwyrtang · a plant; vegetable; herb, spice
- Inherited-form mention*wurtigmw-pro · a root; a spice
- Inherited-form mention*wrōtsgem-pro · a root
- Inherited-form mention*wréh₂dsine-pro · a root
- Doublet mentionrooten
- Cognate mentionwortodt · herb; plant
- Cognate mentionwortdum · herb; root
- Cognate mentionwurzgoh · herb; root; spice
- Cognate mentionwurzgmh
- Cognate mentionWurzde
- Cognate mentionjurtnon
- Cognate mentionjurtis
- Cognate mentionurtno
- Cognate mentionurtgmq-oda
- Cognate mentionurtda
- Cognate mentionyrtgmq-osw · plant
- Cognate mentionörtsv
- Cognate mentionwurtosx · herb; plant; root
- Cognate mentionwortgml
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"Chiefly in the plural: a plant of the genus Brassica used as a vegetable; a brassica; especially, a cabbage (Brassica oleracea).",
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