whin

Senso (Inglese)

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

Sinonimi

gorse

whinstone

furze

dyer’s-broom

woadwaxen

woodwaxen

greenweed

dyeweed

Irish gorse

dyer’s greenweed

basalt

Ulex europaeus

Genista tinctoria

trap rock

skylark

trap

🪤

trappide

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/wɪn/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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”).