wode en · ADJ · etymology 1
Etymology
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”)).
Meanings
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(obsolete) Mad, angry, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
My hair stode up, I waxed wode, my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake.
a'''. 1588, Jasper Heywood, quoted in James Petite Andews, The History of Great Britain, published 1806
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| wood | alternative | lexicographic | |
| wodest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| woder | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |