Etymology

pigweed

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Today it means: Any of various weedy plants sometimes used as pig fodder Full definition →

English weed ← Middle English weed ← Old English wēod
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic*puggō
  2. Old English*picga
  3. Middle Englishpigge
  4. Englishpig
  5. Proto-West Germanic*weud
  6. Old Englishwēod
  7. Middle Englishweed
  8. Englishweed
  9. English todaypigweed

From pig + weed.

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