The story
- Middle English · derived fromwode“wood”
- Middle Dutch · derived fromwedewale
- Middle English · inherited fromwodewale
- English todaywoodwall
From Middle English wodewale, of uncertain origin, probably from Old English, but perhaps from Middle Dutch wedewale with 1st element reanalyzed as from Middle English wode (“wood”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishwode all →
woadwode
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.