wood

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The hard material that trees are made of, used for building and making things.

   This table is made of solid wood.

2. 2
   noun

   A large area covered with trees, smaller than a forest.

   We went for a walk through the woods.

3. 3
   noun

   Wood used as fuel for a fire.

   We need more wood for the fire.

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English wode, from Old English wudu, widu (“wood, forest, grove; tree; timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate”). The spelling developed as it did in wool. Cognate with Dutch wede (“wood, twig”), Middle High German wite (“wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish ved (“wood”), Elfdalian wið (“wood, timber”), Faroese, Icelandic viður (“wood”), Norwegian Nynorsk ved (“wood, firewood”), vid (“wide, broad”). Further cognates include Irish fiodh (“a wood, tree”), Irish fid (“tree”)…

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