twig

twigges (plural)
twi (alternative)
twiȝ (alternative)
twigge (alternative)
twyg (alternative)
twygge (alternative)
tuyg (alternative)

English: twig

Scots: twigg, tuigg

Inherited from Old English twig, from Proto-West Germanic *twīg, from Proto-Germanic *twīgą.

Any part of a tree, especially a branch or cutting:

A twig or tillow; a shoot branching off a tree.

An easily bending branch used in crafts.

(figurative, rare) A subtype or part of something; the result or descendant of something.


male

males (plural)
madle (alternative)
mascle (alternative)
mal (alternative)
masle (alternative)
maule (alternative)
mawle (alternative)

English: male

Scots: male

Borrowed from Old French masle, malle, from Late Latin masclus, from Latin masculus; compare femele and masculyn.

(rare) Manhood; the state of being male.


box

English: box

From Old English box, from Proto-West Germanic *buhs, borrowed from Latin buxus.

etymon

Buxus sempervirens
Buxus sempervirens#Translingual


maser

masers (plural)
mazer (alternative)
masere (alternative)
masour (alternative)
maserre (alternative)
mazere (alternative)
macer (alternative)
macher (alternative)
masowyr (alternative)
mausure (alternative)
mazre (alternative)
mazar (alternative)

English: mazer

Scots: maser

From Old English *maser, *mæser, from Proto-Germanic *masuraz; reinforced by Anglo-Norman mazer.

Acer campestre
Acer campestre#Translingual


tre

tres (plural)
treen (plural)
tree (alternative)
treo (alternative)
trew (alternative)
trewe (alternative)
treou (alternative)
trow (alternative)
trowe (alternative)

English: tree

Scots: tree

Yola: tren (plural)

From Old English trēow, from Proto-West Germanic *treu, in turn from Proto-Germanic *trewą. Ultimately descended from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.


almond

almondes (plural)
almaund (alternative)
almound (alternative)
almand (alternative)
alemaunde (alternative)

English: almond

Scots: almond


thorn

thornes (plural)
thorne (alternative)
thron (alternative)
thurne (alternative)
þorn (alternative)
þorne (alternative)
þron (alternative)

English: thorn

Scots: thorn; torn (Shetland)

Yola: thoornes, thorns, thurns

Inherited from Old English þorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós.

A thorn (spine on a plant with a sharp point)

A plant having thorns, especially the hawthorn or rosebush.

(rare) Thorns pulled from the ground for burning.


elm

elmes (plural)
alme (alternative)
elme (alternative)
helm (alternative)
ulme (alternative)

desc

dialectal <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">ellum</i>

English: elm (dialectal ellum)

Scots: elm

Inherited from Old English elm, from Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”). For the variant ulme, compare Old English ulmtrēow.


peche

peches (plural)
peske (alternative rare)

English: peach

Scots: peach

/ˈpɛːt͡ʃ(ə)/

Borrowed from Middle French pesche, from Old French pesche, from Late Latin persica, for Classical mālum persicum (literally “Persian apple”).


ew

English: yew

Scots: yew, ewe

Yola: yew

From Old English īw, ēow, from Proto-West Germanic *īhu.

u (alternative)
iw (alternative)
iv (alternative)
eev (alternative)
hw (alternative)
ewe (alternative)

Taxus baccata
Taxus baccata#Translingual


hawthorn

hawthornes (plural)
haȝ þorn (alternative)
haȝþorne (alternative)
haue-thorne (alternative)
hauȝ þorne (alternative)
hauthorne (alternative)
hauþorn (alternative)
hauþorne (alternative)
hawethorn (alternative)
hawethorne (alternative)
haweþorn (alternative)
hawe-þorn (alternative)
hawe þorn (alternative)
hawȝþorn (alternative)
hawthern (alternative)
hawthorne (alternative)
hawthorun (alternative)
haw-thron (alternative)
hawþrone (alternative)

English: hawthorn

Scots: hawthorn

Inherited from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-West Germanic *haguþorn; equivalent to hawe + thorn.


cipres

cipresses (plural)
cipresse (alternative)
cipris (alternative)
cipriss (alternative)
cupresse (alternative)
cypres (alternative)
cypress (alternative)
cypresse (alternative)
sipres (alternative)
syprese (alternative)
sipresse (alternative)
syperesse (alternative)
sypres (alternative)

English: cypress

Borrowed from Old French cipres, from Latin cupressus, from Ancient Greek κυπάρισσος (kupárissos).

Cupressus sempervirens
Cupressus sempervirens#Translingual

A cypress (the tree Cupressus sempervirens)


cheri

cheries (plural)
chiri (alternative)
chirie (alternative)
chyry (alternative)
chere (alternative)
cherie (alternative)
chery (alternative)

English: cherry (see there for further descendants)

Scots: chirry, chery, cherrie, cherry

→ Middle Irish: silín, sirín

Irish: silín

Manx: shillish

Scottish Gaelic: sirist

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman cheri, from Old Northern French cherise (“cherry”), from Vulgar Latin ceresia, a reinterpretation of the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium (cerasum, cerasus (“cherry tree”)), from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly derived from a language of Asia Minor.
Displaced Old English ciris (also from Vulgar Latin ceresia), which died out after the Norman invasion and was replaced by the French-derived word.

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palme

palmes (plural)
paume (alternative)
pame (alternative)

English: palm
→ Malay: palma, ڤلما

Scots: paum

Yola: polm

From Old English palm, palma, from Latin palma.


aldre

English: alder

Scots: aller

Inherited from Old English alor, from Proto-West Germanic *aliʀu, from Proto-Germanic *alizō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élis-; the final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique forms.

alder (alternative)
aldur (alternative)
aldyr (alternative)
aleyre (alternative)
aller (alternative)
alre (alternative)
althir (alternative)
olr (alternative Early-Middle-English)


figer

fygers (plural)
fier (alternative)
figre (alternative)
fygeer (alternative)

From Old French figier, fiier, from Latin fīcārius (modern French figuier is remodelled after French figue).


fige

figes (plural)
fygge (alternative)
fyge (alternative)
figge (alternative)
fygue (alternative)
ffige (alternative)

desctree

English: fig
Tok Pisin: fik
→ Chuukese: fik
→ Maori: piki

Scots: feg

→ Welsh: ffigys (from the plural form)

Borrowed from Old French figue, from Old Occitan figa, from Vulgar Latin *fīca, from Latin fīcus. Doublet of fyke.


cedre

cedres (plural)
ceder (alternative)
cedir (alternative)
cedyr (alternative)
cedur (alternative)
cedr (alternative)
seder (alternative)
sedur (alternative)
cydyr (alternative)
cidre (alternative)

English: cedar

Scots: ceder, cedir, cedar

From Old French cedre, from Latin cedrus, from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros). Compare Old English ċeder, from the same Latin source.

Lebanon cedar (Cedrus libani) or a similar tree.


medler

medlers (plural)
meddeler (alternative)
medeler (alternative)
middiller (alternative)
medlar (alternative)

English: medlar

From Old French medler, meslier; equivalent to medle + -er.

Crataegus germanica
Crataegus germanica#Translingual

Mespilus germanica
Mespilus germanica#Translingual

The common medlar (Crataegus germanica, syn. Mespilus germanica) or its fruit.


balsamum

From Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek βάλσαμον (bálsamon, “balsam”), of Semitic origin (compare Hebrew בושם). Doublet of bawme.

der

balsamom (alternative)
balsamome (alternative)
balsamus (alternative)
balsaumus (alternative)


beem

bemes (plural)
beam (alternative)
bem (alternative)
beme (alternative)
beume (alternative)
beam (alternative Northern)
beame (alternative Northern)
beam (alternative Early-Middle-English)
beom (alternative Early-Middle-English)

English: beam

→ German: beamen

→ Japanese: ビーム

→ Dutch: beamen

Scots: beam

Yola: baam

Inherited from Old English bēam, from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz.


canel

Scots: cannel

→ Irish: cainéal (“cinnamon”)

From Old French canele, from Medieval Latin cannella, a diminutive of canna; equivalent to cane + -el (diminutive suffix).

canell (alternative)
kanel (alternative)
canelle (alternative)
canele (alternative)
canylle (alternative)

cinnamon (The bark of trees of certain species of the genus Cinnamomum)

(rare) The cinnamon tree; the trees which produce cinnamon.


crabbe

crabbes (plural)
crabben (plural)
crab (alternative)
scrabbe (alternative)

English: crab, scrab

Scots: scrab

Of Germanic origin, perhaps influenced by sense 1 or the adjective crabbed and altered from Scots and northern English scrab, of the same meaning, plausibly ultimately from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabba, krabbäpple.


beche

English: beech

Scots: beech

From Old English bēċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bōkijā.


perer

From Old French perier, from Vulgar Latin *pirarius; equivalent to pere (“pear”) + -er.


aspe

English: asp

Scots: aisp

Borrowed from Old French aspe, from Latin aspis. Doublet of aspide, from Latin oblique forms.


plomme

plommes (plural)
ploume (alternative)
plum (alternative)
plumbe (alternative)
plumme (alternative)
plowme (alternative)
ploumme (alternative)
plome (alternative)

English: plum (see there for further descendants)

Scots: ploom, ploum

From Old English plūme, plume (“plum”), from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, from Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦνον (proûnon), προῦμνον (proûmnon). Doublet of prune.
For the phonological development, compare thoumbe.


orenge

orenges (plural)
arange (alternative)
araunge (alternative)
orange (alternative)
orynge (alternative)

desctree

English: orange
→ Esperanto: oranĝo
→ Hawaiian: ʻalani
→ Japanese: オレンジ (orenji)
→ Kashubian: orendż (Canada, United States)
→ Korean: 오렌지 (orenji)
→ Makah: ʔo·linčas
→ Malay: oren, oyen
→ Marshallese: oran
→ Tamil: ஆரஞ்சு (ārañcu)

Scots: orange, oranger

Borrowed from Middle French orange, from Old French orenge, from pomme d'orenge.

(rare) orange (A tree that bears oranges)


hasel

haseles (plural)
hasell (alternative)
hasil (alternative)
hasill (alternative)
hasul (alternative)
hasyl (alternative)
haysell (alternative)
hesel (alternative)
hesill (alternative)
hesyll (alternative)

desc

dialectal <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">halse</i>

English: hazel (dialectal halse)

Scots: hazel

Yola: hawlse

The hazel tree, one of its branches, or its wood.


chesteyne

chesteynes (plural)
chasteine (alternative)
chasten (alternative)
chasteyn (alternative)
chaston (alternative)
chestan (alternative)
chestayn (alternative)
chesten (alternative)
chestein (alternative)
chesteyn (alternative)
chestyn (alternative)
cheston (alternative)
kesteyn (alternative)

English: chesten (obsolete)

⇒ English: chestnut

→ Middle Scots: chastnut (calque)

Scots: chestnut

Middle Scots: chastan, chasten, chestane

From a combination of Old French chastaigne and Old English ċisten, both from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia).

A chestnut tree (tree of the genus Castanea)


lynde

lyndes (plural)
lynd (alternative)
linde (alternative)
lind (alternative)
lyne (alternative)
lyn (alternative)

English: lind, lime

Scots: lind, lynde, leind

Any of a number of trees of the genus Tilia; linden.


walnot

walnotes (plural)
walnutte (alternative)
walnotte (alternative)
walnote (alternative)
walnout (alternative)
walnoot (alternative)
walle-notte (alternative)

English: walnut

Scots: wanit, wanut

From Old English wealhhnutu, from Proto-Germanic *walhahnuts; equivalent to wale (“outsider”) + note (“nut”).


quynce

quynces (plural)
quyns (alternative)
qwince (alternative)
quince (alternative)
quence (alternative)
qwyns (alternative)
coynce (alternative)

English: quince
→ Thai: ควินซ์ (kwíns)

Welsh: cwins

Scots: quince

From coyns (“quinces”); reanalysed as a singular.

Cydonia oblonga
Cydonia oblonga#Translingual


olyve

olyves (plural)
oleys (plural)
olife (alternative)
oliva (alternative)
olive (alternative)
olyf (alternative)
olyfe (alternative)

English: olive

Scots: olive

From Old French olive, from Latin olīva, from Etruscan 𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (eleiva) or from Pre-Classical Ancient Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa).

Olea europaea
Olea europaea#Translingual


appeltre

enm-noun

appeltre (plural appel tres or appultreen)

appel tres (plural)
appultreen (plural)
appiltre (alternative)
appultre (alternative)
apple tree (alternative)
appul tree (alternative)
appil-tre (alternative)
appel trowe (alternative)

desc

English: apple-tree, apple tree, appletree

Scots: aipple-tree, aipple tree

Inherited from Old English æppeltrēow; equivalent to appel + tre.

Malus domestica
Malus domestica#Translingual


asshe

enm-noun

asshe (plural asshen or asshes or asshe or asken)

asshen (plural)
asshes (plural)
asshe (plural)
asken (plural)
axe (alternative)
aske (alternative)
ash (alternative)
assche (alternative)
aysshe (alternative)
asche (alternative)
aisshe (alternative)
asske (alternative)
acxe (alternative)
ass (alternative)
esche (alternative)
esk (alternative)
eshe (alternative)

English: ash

Scots: ess, asch, ais, as, askis

Yola: ashen, oaskean (plural)

From Old English æsce, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ.

The matter which one's physical form is made of; bodily matter.

(figuratively) Death, mortality; the end of one's life.

(Christianity) Ashes utilised in ceremonies to represent forgiveness.


asshe

esshys (plural)
asshen (plural)
asch (alternative)
haish (alternative)
asche (alternative)
assh (alternative)
aissh (alternative)
ashe (alternative)
esch (alternative)
assche (alternative)

English: ash

Scots: aish, esh

From Old English æsc, from Proto-West Germanic *ask, from Proto-Germanic *askaz.


birche

birches (plural)
byrche (alternative)
birch (alternative)
birk (alternative)
byrke (alternative)
birke (alternative)
breche (alternative)

English: birch

Northumbrian: birk

Scots: birk

From Old English birċe, bierċe, from Proto-West Germanic *birkijā.


therebynte

English: terebinth

From Old French terebinthe, from Latin terebinthus, from Ancient Greek τερέβινθος (terébinthos).

theribynte (alternative)
therubynte (alternative)
therebynt (alternative)
terebynt (alternative)


figge tre

fige trese (plural)
fige tree (alternative)
fyge-tre (alternative)
fige-tree (alternative)
figtre (alternative)
figge tree (alternative)

English: fig tree


junyper

English: juniper

Scots: jenepere

From Latin iūniperus; some forms are influenced by Old French geneivre.

juniper (alternative)
junipre (alternative)
junypre (alternative)
juniperus (alternative)
junypere (alternative)
jennypere (alternative)
junypyr (alternative)
geneper (alternative)
jenepere (alternative)
jenyper (alternative)
gynypre (alternative)

Juniper (tree of the genus Juniperus) or a similar plant.


thornetre

English: thorn-tree, thorn tree

þorn tree (alternative)
þron tre (alternative)


hawe tre

hawtre (alternative)
haw tree (alternative)
hawetre (alternative)
awe-tre (alternative)


firre

English: fir

Scots: fir

From Old English fyrh, furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furhu, from Proto-Germanic *furhō. Alternatively from Old Norse fýri, from the same Proto-Germanic source.

ferre (alternative)
fir (alternative)
fyr (alternative)
fyrr (alternative)
veer (alternative)
verre (alternative)


firre

ferse (plural)
fyre (alternative)
ffyre (alternative)
fyyre (alternative)

Yola: wyddeer

From firse, the -s being taken as the plural ending.


peretre

peretrees (plural)
pere-tre (alternative)
pere tre (alternative)
pere tree (alternative)
pertre (alternative)
peretree (alternative)
peere tre (alternative)

English: pear tree, peartree


pirie

piries (plural)
pirie (plural)
pery (alternative)
perye (alternative)
pire (alternative)
pirry (alternative)
piry (alternative)
pirye (alternative)
purye (alternative)
pyrie (alternative)
pyry (alternative)

Inherited from Old English piriġe, apparently from a Vulgar Latin *pirea (not known in the Romance languages); compare pere (“pear”).


plumtre

plumtres (plural)
plumtree (alternative)
plomtre (alternative)
plomtree (alternative)
plowmtre (alternative)
plum tre (alternative)
plombtree (alternative)
plomme tre (alternative)
ploumme tre (alternative)
plum tree (alternative)
plome tree (alternative)

English: plum tree, plum-tree, plumtree

Scots: ploom tree

From Old English plūmtrēow; equivalent to plomme + tre.


mapel

maples (plural)
mapell (alternative)
mapil (alternative)
maple (alternative)
mapulle (alternative)
mapyl (alternative)

English: maple

From Old English *mapul, from Proto-West Germanic *mapul, from Proto-Germanic *mapulaz.


sicamour

English: sycamore, sycomore

Scots: sycamore

Borrowed from Old French sicamor, from Latin sȳcomorus, from Ancient Greek σῡκόμορος (sūkómoros).

secomoure (alternative)
segamore (alternative)
sicamor (alternative)
sicomore (alternative)
sicomour (alternative)
sikamour (alternative)
sycamour (alternative)
sycamoure (alternative)
sycomor (alternative)
sycomour (alternative)
sycomowre (alternative)
sykamoure (alternative)

Ficus sycomorus
Ficus sycomorus#Translingual


bawme

bawmes (plural)
balsme (alternative)
bame (alternative)
basme (alternative)
baum (alternative)
baume (alternative)
bawm (alternative)

English: balm
→ Welsh: balm

Scots: baum

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Middle French baume, from Old French basme, from Latin balsamum. Doublet of balsamum.

The aromatic resin of trees of the genus Commiphora; balsam.


salow

salowes (plural)
salew (alternative)
salgh (alternative)
salghe (alternative)
salȝe (alternative)
sallow (alternative)
salowe (alternative)
salu (alternative)
saluh (alternative)
salwe (alternative)
salwh (alternative)
salwhe (alternative)
saly (alternative)
salyh (alternative)

English: sallow, sally, selly

Scots: sauch

Inherited from Old English sealh, from Proto-West Germanic *salh, from Proto-Germanic *salhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂lk-, *sh₂lik-.


wylow

wylowes (plural)
welew (alternative)
weleygh (alternative)
welo (alternative)
welogh (alternative)
welou (alternative)
wely (alternative)
whilwh (alternative)
wilew (alternative)
wilghe (alternative)
wilou (alternative)
wilowh (alternative)
wilwe (alternative)
wylew (alternative)
wylgh (alternative)
wylugh (alternative)
wylw (alternative)

English: willow

Scots: willy, willie

Inherited from Old English welig, from Proto-West Germanic *wilig, from Proto-Germanic *wiligaz, from Proto-Indo-European *welik-, *weliḱ-.


cipre

cipres (plural)
cypre (alternative)
cypur (alternative)

A back-formation from cipres, interpreted as a plural.

(rare) A cypress (the tree Cupressus sempervirens)