hemlock

Signification (Anglais)

1. (countable, uncountable) Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera
2. (countable, uncountable) Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera
3. (countable, uncountable) Poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants.
4. (countable, uncountable) Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.

Concepts

ciguë

cigüe

pruche

Tsuga

conium

conium maculatum

grande cigüe

Synonymes

poison hemlock

California fern

Nebraska fern

poison parsley

winter fern

Tsuga

hemlock tree

Conium maculatum

bigcone spruce

evergreen

hemlock spruce

noxious gas

bigcone douglas-fir

bigcone douglass fir

cedar

Traductions

cicuta

cicuta

🌱

cicuta

scheerling

cicuta

κώνειο

Schierling

dolle kervel

cicuta

Gefleckter Schierling

Conium

hemlockspar

Tsuga

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈhɛmˌlɒk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: hemlok

Hérité de ancien anglais: hemlīc

Appartenant à danois: -

Appartenant à suédois: humle

Appartenant à islandais: humall

Appartenant à ossète: хумӕллӕг

Appartenant à avestique: 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀

Appartenant à persan: هوم

Appartenant à sanskrit: सोम

In summary

From Middle English hemlok, hemeluc, from Old English hemlīc, hymlīc m and hymlīce f (“hemlock, bryony, convolvulus”), of uncertain origin.
speculative etymology
Compare Old English hymele (“hop-vine, hops”), Old English humele (“bryony, widerton, hair moss, gold-hair, morning glory”), Danish and Swedish humle (“hops”), Icelandic humall (“hops”). Perhaps from Scythian, from Proto-Iranian *háwHmah (“ephedra; juice”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwHmas from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁- (“to press out, extract”).
;cognates
* (from Sarmato-Scythian *haumala) Ossetian хумӕллӕг (xumællæg, “hops”)
* (from Sarmato-Scythian *hauma) Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀 (haoma), Baluchi [script needed] (hum), Persian هوم (hôm))
* (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma) Sanskrit सोम (soma))
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