hemlock

English

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Conium maculatum, one of the umbellifers called hemlock

Tsuga heterophylla, one of the conifers called hemlock

Etymology

From Middle English hemlok, hemeluc, from Old English hymlīc, hymlīce (“hemlock, bryony, convulvus”), literally 'hops-like', from hymele (“hop-vine”), from Proto-Germanic *humalaz, *humalōn, of unknown origin. Perhaps from Scythian *haumala, a diminutive of *hauma (“ephedra; juice”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma from Proto-Indo-European *seue- (“to suck; juice”).

cognates

(from Proto-Germanic *humalaz, *humalōn) Old Norse humall, Middle Low German homele (from Sarmato-Scythian *haumala) Ossetian хумæллæг (xumællæg, “hops”) (from Sarmato-Scythian *hauma) Avestan  (haoma), Baluchi  (hum), Persian هوم (hōm)) (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma) Sanskrit सोम (soma)) More at suck.

Noun

hemlock (plural hemlocks)

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

Synonyms

• (umbellifer): beaver poison, devil's porridge, Herb Bennet, musquash root, poison hemlock, poison parsley, spotted corobane, spotted hemlock Conium maculatum; Conium chaerophylloides; Conium conium maculatum

Translations

tree

• Catalan: tsuga (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐵杉 (cmn), 铁杉 (cmn) (tiěshān), 毒草名 (cmn) (dúcǎomíng)

• 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), 栂 (ja) (つが, tsuga)
• Norwegian: hemlokk (no)
• Polish: choina (pl)
• Russian: тсуга (ru) (tsúga) f
• Swedish: hemlockgran (sv)
• Ukrainian: тсуга (uk) (tsúha) f

poisonous plant of genus Conium

• Albanian: kukutë (sq) f
• Aromanian: cucutã (rup) f
• 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, (Conium maculatum) Gefleckter 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
• Volapük: (Conium) konid (vo), (Conium maculatum) stenöfakonid (vo), konidavenen (vo) (poison)

poisonous plant of genus Cicuta — see cowbane