English Explanatory Dictionary

wode

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Mad, angry, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
noun
  1. Obsolete spelling of woad.

Word forms

wode woder wodest wood

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”)).

Derived words

wax wode
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