Etymograph

English

gaybine

From gay + bine.

A compound of gay + bine

Old French gai ‘joyful, merry’

Middle English gay ‘joyous’

English gay

Today it means

noun Any of several showy twining plants of section Ipomoea sect. Pharbitis of the genus Ipomoea.

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

Etymograph / gaybine