English
woodmarch
Woodmarch comes from Proto-Germanic *marikiz ‘waterplant, celery, parsley’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *móri.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*móri‘water, sea’reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*marikiz‘waterplant, celery, parsley’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150wudemerċe
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500wodemarch
- Englishearliest quotation 1866woodmarch
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*móri‘water, sea’reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*marikiz‘waterplant, celery, parsley’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150wudemerċe
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500wodemarch
- Englishearliest quotation 1866woodmarch
Earliest quotation: 1866, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms: “Let the man who hath ill humours on his…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘sea, lake, wetland’
remember, murder, mortality, nightmare, mortal, maritime, mortar, submarine, muller, morbid, mort, morn, mara, mariner, ambrosia, moribund, cormorant, marshy, marinara, 59 more
through Proto-Indo-European *móri ‘water, sea’
Today it means
noun An umbelliferous plant, a species of sanicle (Sanicula europaea).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *móri / woodmarch