English

goutweed

From gout + weed, from having formerly been used to treat gout.

A compound of gout + weed

Latin gutta ‘drop’

Old French gote ‘drop (of liquid)’

Middle English goute

English gout

Proto-West Germanic *weud

Old English wēod

Middle English weed

English weed

Today it means

noun A ground elder, Aegopodium podagraria.

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

Etymograph / goutweed