yarwe
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Middle English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Old English ġearwe, from Proto-West Germanic *garwā, perhaps derived from *garu (“prepared, ready (of food”)), as the plant was used medicinally for digestion.[1][2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
yarwe (uncountable)
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References[edit]
- “yarwe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-24.
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Garbe”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “gerwe”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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