English

greasewort

From grease + wort.

A compound of grease + wort

Latin crassus ‘fat, thick’

Vulgar Latin *crassia ‘fat’

Anglo-Norman grece

Middle English grece

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

Today it means

noun Aneura pinguis, a liverwort.

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

Etymograph / greasewort