English

alligatorwood

alligator + wood

Spanish el ‘the lizard’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- ‘to separate’

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Proto-West Germanic *widu ‘forest’

Old English widu

Old English wudu ‘wood’

Middle English wode ‘wood’

English wood

Today it means

noun Synonym of American sweetgum.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / alligatorwood