whin

(Englisch)

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

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/wɪn/
Etymologie (Englisch)

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”).

dyer’s-broom

dyeweed

Irish gorse

dyer’s greenweed

Ulex europaeus

Genista tinctoria

trappide

Genista tinctoria

ginestra minore

Ulex europaeus

toja

argelat

kolcolist zachodni

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