English
helenium
Helenium comes from mul Helenium.
- mulmodernHelenium
- Englishearliest quotation 1922helenium
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- mulmodernHelenium
- Englishearliest quotation 1922helenium
Earliest quotation: 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals: “Amongst the herbs to be administered when the charm…”
Every English word from mul Helenium
Today it means
noun Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Helenium, the dried leaves of which were once used to make a form of snuff.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / mul Helenium / helenium