English

honewort

Honewort comes from English hone ‘a swelling’.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of hone + wort

Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- ‘to sharpen’

Proto-Germanic *hainō ‘whetstone’

Old English hān ‘a projecting stone that forms part of a boundary’

Middle English hon ‘whetstone’

English hone

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

Every English word from English hone

noun A perennial plant, Cryptotaenia canadensis, sometimes cultivated as a vegetable.

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