English

knotroot

From knot + root.

A compound of knot + root

Proto-Germanic *knuttô ‘a knot’

Proto-West Germanic *knottō

Old English cnotta

Middle English knotte ‘knot, tie’

English knot

Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds ‘root’

Proto-Germanic *wrōts ‘root’

Old Norse rót ‘root’

Old English rōt ‘root’

Middle English rote ‘underground part of a plant’

English root

Today it means

noun Collinsonia canadensis, a perennial medicinal herb in the mint family, Lamiaceae.

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

Etymograph / knotroot