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ramsons

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

Syllables
ram-sons
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A wild relative of chives, of species Allium ursinum, having edible leaves and roots.

Etymology

From Middle English ramsons, ramsens, rampsons, ramesones, ramsouns, plural of Middle English ramson, ramsen (“wild garlic”), reinterpreted as a singular form, from Old English hramsan, nominative plural of Old English hramsa (“wild garlic”), from Proto-West Germanic *hramusō, from Proto-Germanic *hramusô (“onion; leek”), from Proto-Indo-European *kremus-, *kermus- (“wild garlic; onion”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: ramsons, ramson, hramsan, hramsa, *hramusō, *hramusô

Inflected Forms

ramson (singular)

Synonyms

buckram wild garlic broad-leaved garlic wood garlic bear garlic bear's garlic hog's garlic allium ursinum

Questions

What does ramsons mean?
A wild relative of chives, of species Allium ursinum, having edible leaves and roots.
Where does ramsons come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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