whin

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(Engels)

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

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/wɪn/

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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”).