wode

wode · adjective¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*weh₂t-ós
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*wōdaz
3. Old English · inherited fromwōd“mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous”
4. Middle English · inherited fromwode
5. English todaywode

From Middle English wode, from Old English wōd (“mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous”), from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (compare Middle Dutch woet > Dutch woede, Old High German wuot > German Wut (“fury”), Old Norse óðr, Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 (wōds, “demonically possessed”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t-ós, from *weh₂t- (“excited, possessed”) (compare Latin vātēs (“seer, prophet”), Old Irish fáith (“seer”), Welsh gwawd (“song”)).

wode · noun²

See woad.

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