yarwe

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Middle English

Alternative forms

ȝarewe, ȝarow, ȝarowe, ȝarwe, ȝorow, yare, yarewe, yarou, yarow, yarowe

Etymology

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

IPA^(key): /ˈjarwə/, /ˈjarɔu̯(ə)/, /ˈjariu̯(ə)/

Noun

yarwe (uncountable)

yarrow

Descendants

English: yarrow; >? yarr
>? Scots: yarr

References

“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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