English

rewood

From re- + wood.

Formed from re- + wood

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

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

verb To plant with woods again; to reforest.

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