Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wode

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English

Syllables: wode
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Mad, angry, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.

Obsolete

noun

Obsolete spelling of woad.

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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

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”)).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *weh₂t-, wode, wōd, *wōdaz, *weh₂t-ós

Usage

Inflected Forms

woder (comparative) wodest (superlative) wood (alternative)

Phrases

wax wode

Questions

What does wode mean?: Mad, angry, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
Where does wode come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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