Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryGorse; furze (Ulex spp.). · The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria).
From Middle English whynne, from Old Norse hvein (“gorse, furze”) (compare Norwegian kvein (“bent grass”), Swedish ven (“bent grass”), dialectal hven (“swamp”)), apparently from hvein (“swampy land”), from Proto-Germanic *hwainō, *hwin- (“swamp; moor”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyn- (“to soil; mud; filth”). Compare Latin caenum (“filth”), Latin inquīnō (“to sully; soil”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionwhynneenm
- Derivation mentionhveinnon · gorse, furze
- Cognate mentionkveinno · bent grass
- Cognate mentionvensv · bent grass
- Inherited-form mention*hwainōgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*ḱweyn-ine-pro · to soil; mud; filth
- Cognate mentioncaenumla · filth
- Cognate mentioninquīnōla · to sully; soil
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