hemlock

English

Etymology

Middle English hemlok, hemeluc, from Old English hymlīc(e) 'hemlock, bryony, convulvus', literally 'hops-like', from hymele 'hop-vine', from Proto-Germanic *humalaz, *humalōn (cf. Old Norse humall, Middle Low German homele), from Sarmato-Scythian *haumala (compare Ossetian xumællæg 'hops'), diminutive of *hauma 'ephedra; juice' (compare Avestan haoma, Baluchi hum, Persian hōm), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma (compare Sanskrit soma), from Proto-Indo-European *seue- 'to suck; juice'. More at suck.

Noun

Wikipedia hemlock (plural hemlocks)

1. Any of several poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera Conium and Cicuta; the poison obtained from these plants
2. Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees

Translations

tree

Catalan: tsuga (ca) f. Czech: jedlovec (cs) m. Danish: hemlock (da), skarntydegran (da) Dutch: hemlockspar (nl) Esperanto: cugo (eo) Estonian: tsuuga (et) Finnish: hemlokki (fi) French: pruche (fr) f.

German: Hemlocktanne (de) f. Japanese: ツガ (ja) (tsuga) Mandarin: 鐵杉 (cmn) (tiěshān) Norwegian: hemlokk (no) Polish: choina (pl) Russian: тсуга (ru) (tsúga) Swedish: hemlockgran (sv) Ukrainian: тсуга (uk) (tsúga)

poisonous plant of genus Conium

Catalan: cicuta (ca) f. Czech: bolehlav (cs) m. Danish: skarntyde (da) c. Dutch: scheerling (nl) Finnish: katko (fi), myrkkykatko (fi) French: ciguë (fr) f. German: Schierling (de) m. Greek: κώνειο (el) (kóneio) n.

Hungarian: bürök (hu) Italian: cicuta (it) f. Japanese: ドクニンジン (ja) (dokuninjin) Polish: szczwół (pl) m. Portuguese: cicuta (pt) f. Romanian: cucută (ro) Russian: болиголов (ru) (boligolóv) m. Scottish Gaelic: iteodha f. Spanish: cicuta (es) f.

poisonous plant of genus Cicuta — see cowbane