English
glassywood
glassy + wood
Proto-Germanic *glasą ‘amber, glass’
Proto-West Germanic *glas ‘glass, amber’
Old English glæs ‘glass’
Middle English glas ‘Glass’
Middle English glasy ‘Composed of or created with glass’
English glassy
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 An American flowering tree of species Astronium graveolens.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / glassywood