wode

== English == === Etymology 1 === 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”)). ==== Alternative forms ==== wood ==== Adjective ==== wode (comparative woder, superlative wodest) (obsolete) Mad, angry, 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. ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === See woad. ==== Noun ==== wode (uncountable) Obsolete spelling of woad. === Anagrams === Dowe, owed == Middle English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwoːd(ə)/ === Etymology 1 === From Old English wōd, from Proto-West Germanic *wōd, from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂tós. ==== Noun ==== wode (uncountable) madness, insanity, an overmastering emotion, rage, fury ==== Verb ==== wode To be or go mad; be or go out of one's mind; behave wildly; be frenzied; go out of control. to be or become furious, enraged. ===== Conjugation ===== ==== Adverb ==== wode frantically ferociously, fiercely intensely, furiously 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 ==== wode mad, insane, possessed, furious, frantic, mentally deranged, of unsound mind, out of one's mind. rabid wild, not tamed ===== Alternative forms ===== wod, wood ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== English: wood (“mad”), wode Scots: wod, wode, wud, wude, wuid ===== References ===== “wode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. Middle English Dictionary === Etymology 2 === From Old English wudu, from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz; see wood. ==== Noun ==== wode wood (material). ===== Descendants ===== English: wood Scots: wod, wuid ===== References ===== “wode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. Middle English Dictionary ==== Verb ==== wode To hunt. To take to the woods; hide oneself in the woods (also reflexive: ben woded). ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== wodeward (“forester”) ===== References ===== “wode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. Middle English Dictionary === Etymology 3 === ==== Verb ==== wode alternative form of waden == Old English == === Verb === wōde second-person singular preterite indicative of wadan == Yola == === Verb === wode alternative form of woode === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), 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, published 1867, page 78