hunigsuce

Old English

Alternative forms

• huniġsūge

Etymology

The first element is huniġ (“honey”); the second element is from sūcan (“to suck”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxu.nijˌsuː.ke/, [ˈhu.nijˌsuː.ke]

Noun

huniġsūce f

1. privet
2. a plant honey can be sucked from

Descendants

• English: honeysuckle

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hunig-súce”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.