"wyrt" meaning in Old English

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Noun

IPA: /wyrt/, [wyrˠt]
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *wurti, from Proto-Germanic *wurt-, the oblique stem of *wrōts (whence root). Cognate with Old Saxon wurt, Old High German wurz, Old Norse urt, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐍃 (waurts). Etymology templates: {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*wurti}} Proto-West Germanic *wurti, {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*wurt-}} Proto-Germanic *wurt-, {{m|gem-pro|*wrōts}} *wrōts, {{m|en|root}} root, {{cog|osx|wurt}} Old Saxon wurt, {{cog|goh|wurz}} Old High German wurz, {{cog|non|urt}} Old Norse urt, {{cog|got|𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐍃}} Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐍃 (waurts) Head templates: {{head|ang|nouns|||||g=f|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} wyrt f, {{ang-noun|f}} wyrt f Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-i-f|wyrt}}, {{ang-decl-noun|wyrt|wyrte,wyrta|wyrt,wyrte|wyrte,wyrta|wyrte|wyrta|wyrte|wyrtum|num=|title=|type=strong i-stem}} Forms: strong [table-tags], wyrt [nominative, singular], wyrte [nominative, plural], wyrta [nominative, plural], wyrt [accusative, singular], wyrte [accusative, singular], wyrte [accusative, plural], wyrta [accusative, plural], wyrte [genitive, singular], wyrta [genitive, plural], wyrte [dative, singular], wyrtum [dative, plural]
  1. plant Tags: feminine Categories (lifeform): Plants
    Sense id: en-wyrt-ang-noun-lgRNlzS2 Disambiguation of Plants: 51 11 6 17 16
  2. vegetable Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-wyrt-ang-noun-RxW3NAhd
  3. herb, spice Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-wyrt-ang-noun-VjjkLPFm
  4. (rare) root of a plant Tags: feminine, rare
    Sense id: en-wyrt-ang-noun-VSPWpZAg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: wert [Kentish], wirt [Late, Old-English]
Etymology number: 1 Derived forms: ǣġwyrt, bisċopwyrt, bēowyrt, cyninges wyrt, feldwyrt, feltwyrt, fīcwyrt, hæselwyrt, hrætelwyrt, hyllwyrt, lǣċewyrt, nædrewyrt, smeoruwyrt, strǣlwyrt, wealhwyrt, wyrtcyn, wyrtcynren, wyrtian, wyrttūn, wyrtwala, wyrtwalian, wyrtweard, wyrtġemang, ēawyrt, ġelodwyrt, ġewyrtbox

Noun

IPA: /wyrt/, [wyrˠt]
Etymology: From a merger of Proto-West Germanic *wurtiju (“spice”) and Proto-West Germanic *wurti (“herb”). Cognate with Old Saxon wurtia. Etymology templates: {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*wurtiju|t=spice}} Proto-West Germanic *wurtiju (“spice”), {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*wurti|t=herb}} Proto-West Germanic *wurti (“herb”), {{cog|osx|wurtia}} Old Saxon wurtia Head templates: {{head|ang|nouns|||||g=f|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} wyrt f, {{ang-noun|f}} wyrt f Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-o-f|wyrt}}, {{ang-decl-noun|wyrt|wyrta,wyrte|wyrte|wyrta,wyrte|wyrte|wyrta|wyrte|wyrtum|num=|title=|type=strong ō-stem}} Forms: strong [table-tags], wyrt [nominative, singular], wyrta [nominative, plural], wyrte [nominative, plural], wyrte [accusative, singular], wyrta [accusative, plural], wyrte [accusative, plural], wyrte [genitive, singular], wyrta [genitive, plural], wyrte [dative, singular], wyrtum [dative, plural]
  1. wort (as in brewing) Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Brewing Derived forms: grēat wyrt, māxwyrt, mealtwyrt
    Sense id: en-wyrt-ang-noun-JowpkfSo Disambiguation of Brewing: 1 6 20 1 71 Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 2 9 14 2 72
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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      "word": "ǣġwyrt"
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      "word": "bēowyrt"
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      "word": "cyninges wyrt"
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      "word": "feldwyrt"
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      "word": "feltwyrt"
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      "word": "hrætelwyrt"
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      "word": "hyllwyrt"
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      "word": "lǣċewyrt"
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      "word": "nædrewyrt"
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      "word": "smeoruwyrt"
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      "word": "strǣlwyrt"
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      "word": "wealhwyrt"
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      "word": "ēawyrt"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ġelodwyrt"
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          "expansion": "Middle English: wurt, worte, wort",
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      "text": "Middle English: wurt, worte, wort"
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        }
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      "expansion": "Old Norse urt",
      "name": "cog"
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        "2": "𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐍃"
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      "source": "declension",
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      "source": "declension",
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      "form": "wyrte",
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      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
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      "expansion": "wyrt f",
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  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 11 6 17 16",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "ang",
          "name": "Plants",
          "orig": "ang:Plants",
          "parents": [
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Plants are tender creatures, and they always wither in the winter cold.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The 16th Sunday After Pentecost\"\nWyrta sind īeðelīca ġesċeafta and þurh winterlīcne ċiele simle forsēariaþ.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Some plants and trees have their home on hills, some in marshes, some on moors, some on rocks, some on bare sand.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy\nSumra wyrta oþþe sumes wuda eard biþ on dūnum, sumra on merscum, sumra on mōrum, sumra on clūdum, sumra on barum sandum.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Apples, grass, and plants, and trees grow old and wither, while others appear, grow green, reach maturity, and ripen, and with that they begin to wither as well.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies\nÆppla, græs, and wyrta, and treowu forealdiaþ and forsēariaþ, and ōðru cumaþ, grēnu weaxaþ, and ġierwaþ and rīpaþ, for þæt hīe eft onġinnaþ sēarian.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plant"
      ],
      "id": "en-wyrt-ang-noun-lgRNlzS2",
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        [
          "plant",
          "plant"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "english": "Holus: \"vegetable.\"",
          "text": "c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English\nHolus: \"wyrt.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "\"What else do you eat?\" \"Vegetables and eggs, fish and cheese, butter and beans.\"",
          "roman": "\"Hwæt māre itst þū?\" \"Wyrta and ǣġru, fisċ and ċīese, buteran and bēana.\"",
          "text": "early 11th century, anonymous gloss of Ælfric's Latin Colloquy (c. 995)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "If you drive me out of your society, you'll eat your vegetables uncooked and your meat raw. [Said by a cook.]",
          "roman": "Ġif ġē mē ūt ādrīfaþ fram ēowrum ġefērsċipe, ġē etaþ ēowre wyrta grēne and ēowre flǣsċmetas hrēawe.",
          "text": "early 11th century, anonymous gloss of Ælfric's Latin Colloquy (c. 995)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "The sign for cooked vegetables is that you take your hand and make a downward motion along your side as if you're cutting them up. When you want raw vegetables, place your finger on your left hand.",
          "text": "unknown date and author, monastic sign language guide\nĠesodenra wyrta tācn is þæt þū dō mid þīnre ōðerre handa niðewearde be þǣre sīdan swelċe þū sċearfian wille. Þonne þū grēne wyrta habban wille, þonne sete þū þīnne finger on þīne winestran hand.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "vegetable"
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      "id": "en-wyrt-ang-noun-RxW3NAhd",
      "links": [
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          "vegetable"
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
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        {
          "english": "Her camels were carrying southern spices, precious gems, and endless gold.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"On the Dedication of a Church\"\nHire olfendas bǣron sūðerne wyrta, and dīerwierðe ġimmas, and unġerīm goldes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Mary took a pound of precious ointment and rubbed it on Jesus' feet and dried them with her hair. Then the whole house was filled with the sweet smell. This ointment was made from 18 kinds of herbs.",
          "text": "Blickling Homilies, \"Palm Sunday\"\nMarīa ġenam ān pund dīerwierðre smierenesse and smierede mid þæs Hǣlendes fēt and mid hire loccum drȳġde. Þā wæs eall þæt hūs ġefylled mid þon swētan stenċe. Þēos smierenes wæs ġeworht of eahtatīene cynna wyrtum.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        [
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "c. 950–1050. Anonymous, \"Daniel (Old English poem)\", in Oxford, Boleian Library, Junius 11, ll. 497–499. Reprinted in 2013, Bintley, Michael D. J.; Shapland, Michael G. (eds.), Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, p. 219. Translation from the same.\nÞuhte him þæt on foldan | fægre stode / wudubeam wlitig, | se wæs wyrtum fæst, / beorht on blædum.\nIt seemed to him that there stood, fair upon the earth, a peerless tree that was steadfast in its roots and bright in its fruits."
        },
        {
          "text": "975–1025 (date of MS). Anonymous, Beowulf, in the Nowell Codex. Translated and reprinted in 1999. Heaney, Seamus (trans.), Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, pp. 94–95, l. 1364.\nwudu wyrtum fæst | wæter oferhelmað\nWoods secured by roots cover over the water"
        }
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        "root of a plant"
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        "(rare) root of a plant"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "rare"
      ]
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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      "word": "wert"
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        "Late",
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          "english": "Plants are tender creatures, and they always wither in the winter cold.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The 16th Sunday After Pentecost\"\nWyrta sind īeðelīca ġesċeafta and þurh winterlīcne ċiele simle forsēariaþ.",
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          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy\nSumra wyrta oþþe sumes wuda eard biþ on dūnum, sumra on merscum, sumra on mōrum, sumra on clūdum, sumra on barum sandum.",
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          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies\nÆppla, græs, and wyrta, and treowu forealdiaþ and forsēariaþ, and ōðru cumaþ, grēnu weaxaþ, and ġierwaþ and rīpaþ, for þæt hīe eft onġinnaþ sēarian.",
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          "english": "\"What else do you eat?\" \"Vegetables and eggs, fish and cheese, butter and beans.\"",
          "roman": "\"Hwæt māre itst þū?\" \"Wyrta and ǣġru, fisċ and ċīese, buteran and bēana.\"",
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          "text": "unknown date and author, monastic sign language guide\nĠesodenra wyrta tācn is þæt þū dō mid þīnre ōðerre handa niðewearde be þǣre sīdan swelċe þū sċearfian wille. Þonne þū grēne wyrta habban wille, þonne sete þū þīnne finger on þīne winestran hand.",
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          "english": "Mary took a pound of precious ointment and rubbed it on Jesus' feet and dried them with her hair. Then the whole house was filled with the sweet smell. This ointment was made from 18 kinds of herbs.",
          "text": "Blickling Homilies, \"Palm Sunday\"\nMarīa ġenam ān pund dīerwierðre smierenesse and smierede mid þæs Hǣlendes fēt and mid hire loccum drȳġde. Þā wæs eall þæt hūs ġefylled mid þon swētan stenċe. Þēos smierenes wæs ġeworht of eahtatīene cynna wyrtum.",
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          "text": "975–1025 (date of MS). Anonymous, Beowulf, in the Nowell Codex. Translated and reprinted in 1999. Heaney, Seamus (trans.), Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, pp. 94–95, l. 1364.\nwudu wyrtum fæst | wæter oferhelmað\nWoods secured by roots cover over the water"
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      "form": "ang-decl-noun-o-f",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ō-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wyrt",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wyrta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wyrte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wyrte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wyrta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wyrte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wyrte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wyrta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wyrte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wyrtum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "wyrt f",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "wyrt f",
      "name": "ang-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wyrt"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun-o-f"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wyrt",
        "2": "wyrta,wyrte",
        "3": "wyrte",
        "4": "wyrta,wyrte",
        "5": "wyrte",
        "6": "wyrta",
        "7": "wyrte",
        "8": "wyrtum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
        "type": "strong ō-stem"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "wort (as in brewing)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wort",
          "wort#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/wyrt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[wyrˠt]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wyrt"
}

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