Manlik

if

Betekenis (Engels)

yew

Sinonieme

if commun

bois d’if

If

Taxus

taxus

un if

Frekwensie

C1
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/if/
Etimologie (Engels)

In summary

Inherited from Middle French if, from Old French if, from northern Vulgar Latin *ivus (“yew tree”), from either Proto-Celtic *iwos or Proto-Germanic *īhwaz, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-. Cognate with Breton ivin, Welsh ywen, Old Irish eó (in Celtic), English yew, Dutch ijf, German Low German Iev, German Eibe (in Germanic), and further with Russian ива (iva) etc.

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