whin

Significado (Inglés)

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

Sinónimos

dyer’s-broom

dyeweed

Irish gorse

dyer’s greenweed

Ulex europaeus

Genista tinctoria

trappide

Traducións

Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/wɪn/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)

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”).

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