ouze

The story

1. Old English · inherited fromwāse
2. Middle English · inherited fromwose
3. Old English · inherited fromwōs“juice, liquor, sap”
4. Middle English · inherited fromwoose
5. English todayouze

Partly from Middle English woose, wose, woos, from Old English wōs (“juice, liquor, sap”); partly from Middle English wose, wase, from Old English wāse, wase (“mud, mire, marsh, slime”). Cognate with Low German wees (“wet, ooze, mire”), German Wasen (“sod, turf”), Icelandic veisa (“mire, bog”). More at ooze.

Words from the same roots