whin

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(Anglès)

(countable, uncountable) Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.).
(countable, uncountable) The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria).

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/wɪn/

Heretat de anglès mitjà

Cognat amb noruec

Cognat amb suec

Cognat amb llatí

In summary

From Middle English whynne, from Old Norse hvein (“gorse, furze”) (compare Norwegian kvein (“bent grass”), Swedish ven (“bent grass”), dialectal hven (“swamp”)), apparently from hvein (“swampy land”), from Proto-Germanic *hwainō, *hwin- (“swamp; moor”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱʷeyn- (“to soil; mud; filth”). Compare Latin caenum (“filth”), Latin inquīnō (“to sully; soil”).