Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Made from the wood of the yew tree.
A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia. · Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus. · in family Podocarpaceae. · in family Cephalotaxaceae.
From Middle English ew, from Old English īw, ēow, [both cognates of Welsh yw (“yews”), Irish eo, Old Irish eó respectively]; although the Old English form was conjectured to be from Proto-West Germanic *īhu, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (compare Icelandic ýr), masculine variant of *īwō (compare Dutch ijf, German Eibe), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-. See also Hittite 𒄑𒂊𒅀𒀭 (eyan, “type of evergreen”), Latgalian īva (“bird cherry”), Lithuanian ievà (“bird cherry”), Russian и́ва (íva, “willow”). Compare typologically Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon), possibly a cognate of Latin taxus.
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- Inherited-form mentionewenm
- Inherited-form mentionīwang
- Cognate mentionywcy
- Cognate mentioneoga
- Cognate mentioneósga
- Inherited-form mention*īhugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*īhwazgem-pro
- Cognate mentionýris
- Cognate mentionijfnl
- Cognate mentionEibede
- Inherited-form mention*h₁eyHw-ine-pro
- Cognate mention𒄑𒂊𒅀𒀭hit
- Cognate mentionīvaltg
- Cognate mentionievàlt
- Cognate mentionи́ваru
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