wode

See also: wodę and wódę

English

Etymology 1

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From Middle English wode, from Old English wōd (“mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous”), from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (compare Middle Dutch woet > Dutch woede, Old High German wuot > German Wut (“fury”), Old Norse óðr, Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 (wōds, “demonically possessed”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t-ós, from *weh₂t- (“excited, possessed”) (compare Latin vātēs (“seer, prophet”), Old Irish fáith (“seer”), Welsh gwawd (“song”)).

Alternative forms

• wood

Adjective

wode (comparative woder, superlative wodest)

1. (archaic) mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
   • a. 1588, Jasper Heywood, quoted in James Petite Andews, The History of Great Britain, published 1806

     My hair stode up, I waxed wode, my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake.

Etymology 2

See woad

Noun

wode (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of woad.

Anagrams

• Dowe, owed

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Middle English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwoːd(ə)/

Etymology 1

From Old English wōd, from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂tós.

Noun

wode (uncountable)

1. madness, insanity, an overmastering emotion, rage, fury

   When thei saw hir for wode so wilde Thei did lede hir ... With-oute the toun ... And stoned hir to dethe. — The Laud Troy Book

   At cherche kan god ... yelde þe wyttes of þe wode. — Ayenbite of Inwyt

Verb

wode

1. To be or go mad; be or go out of one's mind; behave wildly; be frenzied; go out of control.

   Vices woden to destroyen men by wounde of thought. — Chaucer

2. to be or become furious, enraged.

   Whan I ne may my ladi se, The more I am redy to wraththe ... I wode as doth the wylde Se. — Gower

Conjugation

Conjugation of wode (weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) wode, wode
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	wode	woded
2nd-person singular	wodest	wodedest
3rd-person singular	wodeth	woded
subjunctive singular	wode
imperative singular		—
plural1	woden, wode	wodeden, wodede
imperative plural	wodeth, wode	—
participles	wodynge, wodende	woded, ywoded

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Adverb

wode

1. frantically
2. ferociously, fiercely
3. intensely, furiously

   Lat us to the peple seme Suche as the world may of us deme That wommen loven us for wod. — Chaucer

4. furiously enraged, irate, angry

   He was wod wroth and wold do Thomas ... to deth. — Mirk's Festial: A Collection of Homilies by Johannes Mirkus

   When þe wale kyng wist, he wex wode wroth. — Wars of Alexander

Adjective

wode

1. mad, insane, possessed, furious, frantic, mentally deranged, of unsound mind, out of one's mind.
2. rabid
3. wild, not tamed

Derived terms

Derived terms

• brain wode (“out of one's mind”)
• waxen wode (“to become mad because of (sth.), be made mad by”)
• woded, wodehedde (“madness, lunacy, mental illness”)
• wodeman (“a madman”)

• woden-drēm (“madness, insane folly”)
• wode sik (“insane, mad”)
• wodewosen (“to run wild, become mad”)

Descendants

• English: wode, wood
• Scots: wod, wode, wud, wude, wuid

References

• “wode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Middle English Dictionary

Etymology 2

From Old English wudu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz; see wood.

Noun

wode

1. wood (material).

Descendants

• English: wood
• Scots: wod, wuid

References

• “wode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Middle English Dictionary

Verb

wode

1. To hunt.
2. To take to the woods; hide oneself in the woods (also reflexive: ben woded).

Conjugation

Conjugation of wode (weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) wode, wode
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	wode	woded
2nd-person singular	wodest	wodedest
3rd-person singular	wodeth	woded
subjunctive singular	wode
imperative singular		—
plural1	woden, wode	wodeden, wodede
imperative plural	wodeth, wode	—
participles	wodynge, wodende	woded, ywoded

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Derived terms

• wodewarde (“forester”)

References

• “wode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Middle English Dictionary

Etymology 3

From Old English wadan.

Verb

wode

1. Alternative form of waden