ijf

Meaning

Synonym of taxus (“yew, Taxus baccata”)

Concepts

yew

yew-tree

yew tree

Synonyms

taxus

venijnboom

iep

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛi̯f/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch *îwe f (attested as uwe and ieve, the latter being a conflation with the unrelated word for “ivy”), from Old Dutch *īwa, from Proto-Germanic *īwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-. Cognate with German Eibe, English yew.