English

stabwort

From stab + wort, since it was once believed to cure wounds.

A compound of stab + wort

Middle English stabbe ‘a stab’

English stab

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

The story

From stab + wort, since it was once believed to cure wounds.

noun Aster atticus, the European Michaelmas daisy.

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

Etymograph / stabwort