English
hedge riding
From hedge (“boundary”) + riding (“traversing, crossing”), where the boundary is that separating this world from the spirit world.
A compound of hedge ‘boundary’ + riding ‘traversing, crossing’
Proto-Indo-European *kagʰ- ‘to keep, enclose’
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Proto-Germanic *hagjō
Proto-West Germanic *haggju
Old English heċġ ‘fence’
Middle English hegge ‘a hedge’
English hedge
Proto-Indo-European *h₃réydʰh₁eti ‘to set in motion, ride’
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Proto-West Germanic *rīdan ‘to ride’
Old English rīdan ‘to ride’
Middle English riden ‘to ride on a mount’
Middle English rydyng ‘riding’
English riding
Today it means
noun Shamanic journeying, as practised by a hedge witch.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / hedge riding