See also: wodę and wódę

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

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)).

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Adjective edit

wode (comparative woder, superlative wodest)

  1. (obsolete) Mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
    • a. 1588, Jasper Heywood, quoted in James Petite Andews, The History of Great Britain, published 1806
      My hair stode up, I waxed wode, my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake.

Etymology 2 edit

See woad.

Noun edit

wode (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of woad

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Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old English wōd, from Proto-West Germanic *wōd, from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂tós.

Noun edit

wode (uncountable)

  1. madness, insanity, an overmastering emotion, rage, fury

Verb edit

wode

  1. To be or go mad; be or go out of one's mind; behave wildly; be frenzied; go out of control.
  2. to be or become furious, enraged.
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Adverb edit

wode

  1. frantically
  2. ferociously, fiercely
  3. intensely, furiously
  4. furiously enraged, irate, angry
    He was wod wroth and wold do Thomas ... to deth. — Mirk's Festial: A Collection of Homilies by (Can we date this quote by Johannes Mirkus and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
    When þe wale kyng wist, he wex wode wroth.(Can we date this quote by Wars of Alexander and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

Adjective edit

wode

  1. mad, insane, possessed, furious, frantic, mentally deranged, of unsound mind, out of one's mind.
  2. rabid
  3. wild, not tamed
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • English: wode, wood
  • Scots: wod, wode, wud, wude, wuid
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Etymology 2 edit

From Old English wudu, from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz; see wood.

Noun edit

wode

  1. wood (material).
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Verb edit

wode

  1. To hunt.
  2. To take to the woods; hide oneself in the woods (also reflexive: ben woded).
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Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

wode

  1. Alternative form of waden

Yola edit

Verb edit

wode

  1. Alternative form of woode
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:
      Yith w'had any lhuck, oor naame wode b' zung,
      If we had any luck, our name would have been sung
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:
      Wode zar; mot, all arkagh var ee barnaugh-blowe,
      Would serve; but, all eager for the barnagh-stroke,

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 78