Meadowwort
/ˈmɛd.oʊ.wɜːrt/noun
A plant associated with meadows, especially one used in herbal traditions.
Did you know?The -wort ending survives from Old English wyrt, the same root behind words like wort in herbal names, where plants were often classified as medicine before they were classified as science.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
mædwe + wyrt
“meadow + herb, plant, or root”
Middle English
ME
medewe + wort
“meadow herb or plant”
Modern English
English
meadowwort
“a meadow-associated herb or plant name”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*wurtiz
“plant, root, herb”