English

figwort

Figwort comes from Old English fīcwyrt.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of fig + wort

Latin fīcus ‘fig tree’

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Old Occitan figa ‘fig (fruit)’

Old French figue ‘fig (fruit)’

Anglo-Norman figue

Middle English fige ‘a fig tree’

English fig

Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds ‘a root’

Proto-Germanic *wrōts ‘a root’

Proto-West Germanic *wurti ‘a root’

Old English wyrt ‘a plant’

Middle English wort ‘any herb or plant’

English wort

Every English word from Old English fīcwyrt

noun Any of various woodland herbs and shrubs of the genus Scrophularia.

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