Etymograph

English

logwood

From log + wood.

A compound of log + wood

Middle English logge ‘large long stick’

English log

Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- ‘to separate’

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Proto-West Germanic *widu ‘forest’

Old English widu

Old English wudu ‘wood’

Middle English wode ‘wood’

English wood

Today it means

noun A tree of species Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America.

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

Etymograph / logwood