The story
- Old English · inherited frommucgwyrt
- Middle English · inherited frommugwort
- English todaymugwort
From Middle English mugwort, mugwyrt, mucgwurt, from Old English mucgwyrt, mucwyrt et al., from Proto-Germanic; probably corresponding to midge + wort. Cognate with regional Low German muggart, mugwurz.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.