woad

Mane (Îngilîzî)

Noun

1. (countable, usually) The plant Isatis tinctoria.
2. (countable, uncountable, usually) The blue vat dye made from the leaves of the plant through partial drying and fermentation.

Verb

1. To plant or cultivate woad.
2. To dye with woad.

Hevwate

ceruse

civet

collyrium

henna

rouge

gold-leaf

Isatis

artificial beauty-spot

dyer’s woad

Werger

wede

guado

guède

glast

Färberwaid

Faerberwaid

Waid

ισάτις

μπλε ίσατης

pastel

Isatis

Isatis

Blaufarbstoff

Isatis

pastell

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/wəʊd/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: wode

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: wād

Hevwate bi Old Frisian: wēd

Hevwate bi holendî: wede

Hevwate bi almanî: Waid

Hevwate bi fransî: guède

Hevwate bi îtalî: guado

Hevwate bi Frankish: -

In summary

From Middle English wode, from Old English wād (“woad”), from Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz (“woad”), from Proto-Indo-European *woydʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian wēd (“woad”), Dutch wede (“woad”), German Waid (“woad”), and with French guède, Italian guado (“woad”) (both borrowed from Frankish). See also weed.