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shrub
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: shr?b, IPA(key): /???b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Etymology 1
From Middle English schrub, schrob, (also unassibilated as scrub), from Old English *s?rob (in placenames) and s?rybb (“a shrub; shrubbery; underbrush”); akin to Norwegian skrubbe (“the dwarf cornel tree”).
Noun
shrub (plural shrubs)
- A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
Synonyms
- bush (plant)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
shrub (third-person singular simple present shrubs, present participle shrubbing, simple past and past participle shrubbed)
- (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Anderson (1573) to this entry?)
- (transitive, Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.
- For example, /???b/ ? /s??b/
Etymology 2
From Arabic ??????? (šir?b, “a drink, beverage”), ??????? (šariba, “to drink”), akin to syrup, sherbet
Noun
shrub (countable and uncountable, plural shrubs)
- A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.
Translations
Anagrams
- Brush, bruhs, brush, burhs
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wort
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /w?t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Etymology 1
From Middle English wort, wurt, wyrte (“plant”), from Old English wyrt (“herb, vegetable, plant, crop, root”), from Proto-Germanic *wurtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds. Doublet of root.
Noun
wort (plural worts)
- (archaic) A plant; herb; vegetable.
- he drinks water, and lives on wort leaves, pulse, like a hogg, or scraps like a dog […].
- 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]
- It is an excellent pleasure to be able to take pleasure in worts and water, in bread and onions, for then a man can never want pleasure when it is so ready for him, that nature hath spread it over all its provisions.
- Any of various plants or herbs, used in combination to refer to specific plants such as St. John's wort, or on its own as a generic term.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- List of wort plants on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English wort, worte (“brewing wort”), from Old English wyrt, wyrte (“brewing wort, new beer, spice”), from Proto-Germanic *wurtij? (“spice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr?h?d- (“sprout, root”).
Cognate with Dutch wort (“wort”), German Würze (“wort, seasoning, spice”), Danish urt (“beer wort”), Swedish vört (“beer wort”).
Noun
wort (uncountable)
- (brewing) Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer.
Translations
Further reading
- wort on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- ROTW, rowt, trow
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
- wòrt, wört, wourd, wuart
Etymology
From Middle High German wort. Cognate with German Wort, Dutch woord, English word, Icelandic orð.
Noun
wort n
- (Formazza) word
References
- “wort” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch worte, from Old Dutch *wurta, from Proto-Germanic *wurtij?.
Pronunciation
Noun
wort n (uncountable)
- wort (unfermented beer)
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch wort
Noun
wort n or f
- word
- diction, what someone says or writes
- prescription, order
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
- w?ort
Descendants
- Dutch: woord
- Limburgish: waord, waordj
Further reading
- “wort”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “wort (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English wyrt (“plant, herb”), from Proto-Germanic *wr?ts (oblique stem *wurt-), from Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds. Doublet of rote (“root”).
Alternative forms
- worte, wurte, woort, wrt, wyrte, wert, wuyrte
Pronunciation
- (mainly Early ME) IPA(key): /?wirt/
- IPA(key): /?wurt/
Noun
wort (plural wortes or worten)
- A plant (not including trees, shrubs, etc.):
- A plant that is wild or not cultivated or harvested.
- A plant that harvested or grown; often as a herb or vegetable.
- A plant employed for supposed curative or medical properties.
- A leaf as part of a salad or other vegetable dish.
Usage notes
This term is often used in compounds.
Related terms
Descendants
- English: wort
References
- “w?rt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-22.
Etymology 2
From Old English wyrt, wyrte (“wort”), from Proto-Germanic *wurtij?.
Alternative forms
- wurte, worte, woort, wrt, wurt
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wurt/
Noun
wort (uncountable)
- Wort (as in brewing) or an analogous mixture (e.g. used for mead)
Descendants
- English: wort
- Scots: wort, wirt
References
- “w?rt, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-22.
Middle High German
Etymology
From Old High German wort.
The sense verb is a literal translation of Latin verbum.
Noun
wort n
- word
- (grammar) verb
- 14th century, Heinrich von Mügeln. Normalised spellings: 1867, Karl Julis Schröer, Die Dichtungen Heinrichs von Mügeln (Mogelîn) nach den Handschriften besprochen, Wien, p. 476:
- Nam, vornam, wort, darnâch
- zûwort, teilfanc, zûfûg ich sach,
- vorsatz, înworf under irem dach
- gemunzet und geformet stân.
- 14th century, Heinrich von Mügeln. Normalised spellings: 1867, Karl Julis Schröer, Die Dichtungen Heinrichs von Mügeln (Mogelîn) nach den Handschriften besprochen, Wien, p. 476:
Descendants
- Alemannic German:
- Alsatian: Wort
- Italian Walser: wort, wourd, wuart, wòrt, wört
- Swabian: Wort
- Bavarian: Wort
- Cimbrian: bóart, bort
- Mòcheno: bourt
- Udinese: boart, bort, bört
- Central Franconian: Woot, Wort
- Hunsrik: Wort
- German: Wort
- Luxembourgish: Wuert
- Vilamovian: wiüt
- Yiddish: ??????? (vort)
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *word
Noun
wort n
- word
Inflection
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: wort
- Dutch: woord
- Limburgish: waord, waordj
Further reading
- “wort”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *word, whence also Old Dutch wort, Old Saxon and Old English word, Old Norse orð, Gothic ???????????????????? (waurd).
The sense verb is a literal translation of Latin verbum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wort/
Noun
wort n
- word
- (grammar) verb
Declension
Descendants
- Middle High German: wort
- Alemannic German:
- Alsatian: Wort
- Italian Walser: wort, wourd, wuart, wòrt, wört
- Swabian: Wort
- Bavarian: Wort
- Cimbrian: bóart, bort
- Mòcheno: bourt
- Udinese: boart, bort, bört
- Central Franconian: Woot, Wort
- Hunsrik: Wort
- German: Wort
- Luxembourgish: Wuert
- Vilamovian: wiüt
- Yiddish: ??????? (vort)
- Alemannic German:
Scots
Alternative forms
- wirt
Etymology
From Middle English wort
Noun
wort (uncountable)
- (Middle Scots) wort
References
- “wort” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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