woad

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*woydʰ-
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*waizdaz“woad”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*waiʀd
4. Old English · inherited fromwād“woad”
5. Middle English · inherited fromwode
6. English todaywoad

From Middle English wode, from Old English wād (“woad”), from Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz (“woad”), from Proto-Indo-European *woydʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian wēd (“woad”), Dutch wede (“woad”), German Waid (“woad”), and with French guède, Italian guado (“woad”) (both borrowed from Frankish). See also weed.

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