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wermōd
noun,
m.,
a-decl.,
104 occ.
Type: plant
Last Update: 27.09.2011 09:15
Old-English: wyrmod, vermod, uermodae, uuermod, wærmod, wearmod, weremod, weremot, wermot,
Latin (Machine generated): ABSINTHIUM, ABSINTIUM, ALOSTNO, DE ABSINCIO VEL,
↑ topReferences Last Update: 13.05.2022 19:02
- wermōd, sēo fūla;
- wermōd, sēo hāra;
- wermōd, sēo sūþerne;
- →wermōd, ōþer;
Meaning Last Update: 14.12.2009 22:20
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A: plant: native
Artemisia absinthium L., wormwood, Wermut
Comment Last Update: 27.09.2011 09:10
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Comment on (A): Artemisia absinthium L., wormwood, Wermut
Occurrences Last Update: 10.01.2011 11:44
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Etymology Last Update: 27.09.2011 09:15
- Etymology: WGmc Etymology-Comment:
< WGmc *wermoda-; cf. OHG wer(i)muota, wer(i)muot, MHG wermuote, -muot, G Wermut-, OS wermoda
- Word-Formation: noun/noun
- Word-Formation-Comment: The second element does not refer to a plant, thus the formation must be metaphorical (or metonymical?), X = plant which has something to do with a man's (wer) mind (mod). What the relation is, is unclear - it has been suggested that the plant guards or preserves a man's mind; this analysis is, however, doubtful because the drink made from the plant (absinth, G Wermut) is an alcoholic (intoxicating) drink which has a bitter taste and rather befuddles man's mind. Perhaps wermod is an obscured form of a word that was then remotivated by popular etymology. In any case OE wermod was remodelled as wormwood through popular etymology in ModE (NN when?).
External Reference Last Update: 27.05.2007 13:10
- OED: wermod, wormwood
- Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Digital Edition
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Artemisia absinthium L., wormwood, Wermut |
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Botanical-Information: stylised plate Source: →reference-information
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[1]:
Ch. XLVI; Hunger (1935,141): ABSINTII.
[2]:
Ch. XCIV; MS V wærmo, = Hilbelink; BH: wermod; Hunger (1935,153): ABSINTHIUM.
[3]:
Ch. CXII; Hunger (1935,157): ABSYNTHIO.
[4]:
Cont.: genim [...] twegra cynna wyrmod"; the two wormwood-species intended here are probably _Artemisia absinthium L. and Artemisia abrotanum L.; in LB 71/17 the latter is called "southern wormwood" (do þone suþernan wermod, þæt is prutene 7 oþerne wermod). With this instance in mind Grattan/Singer"s doubts (1952,199, n.5) seem invalid: "There were two kinds of ARTEMISIA in the classical herbals, but it seems unlikely that they were both correctly and constantly identified by the barbarians."
[5]:
Cont.: wermodes sæd; L text (Löweneck 1896,40/1): CIMAS ABSINTHI.
ALOSTNO = ALOSANTUS = ALOXINUS = Artemisia absinthium L. (cf. André, s.vv.); cf. OFr aloisne (from L ALOXINUS), ModF aluine 'Wermut' (Gamillscheg 1997, s.v. aluine) and cf. AndGl 3,52,1: ALOSANTUS wermuete.