thistle

Significat (Anglès)

1. Any of several perennial composite plants, especially of genera Cirsium, Carduus, Cynara, or Onopordum, having prickly leaves and showy flower heads with prickly bracts.
2. This plant seen as the national emblem of Scotland.
3. An image of this plant used as a charge.
4. The Order of the Thistle, or membership thereof.

Conceptes

card

Sinònims

thorn

thorny plant

Carduus

prickle

spine

sticker

thisle

prickly plant

Onopordum

large-leaved

wild cabbage

bramble

radix cirsii jeponici

brier

bristle

Traduccions

cardo

cardo

Distel

chardon

distel

carduus

Carduus

γαϊδουράγκαθο

devedikeni

cardo

abrojo

Onopordum acanthium

Wilde Artischocke

tribulus

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/θɪsl̩/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: thistel

Heretat de anglès antic: þistel

Cognat amb anglès: stick

Cognat amb escocès: thrissel

Cognat amb alemany: Distel

Cognat amb neerlandès: distel

Cognat amb islandès: þistill

In summary

From Middle English thistel, from Old English þistel, from Proto-West Germanic *þistil, from Proto-Germanic *þistilaz. *þīh- from *teyg-, which is a variant of Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to prick”); from this same Proto-Indo-European root comes English stick.
Cognates include Scots thrissel, German Distel, Dutch distel, and Old Norse and Icelandic þistill.