ȝarowe

Middle English

Alternative forms

yarowe, yarwe, ȝarow, ȝorow, ȝarewe, ȝarwe, yarewe, yarow, yarou

Etymology

From Old English ġearwe, from Proto-West Germanic *garwu, perhaps a variant of *garu (“prepared, ready (of food”)), as the plant was used medicinally for digestion.[1][2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈjarɔu̯(ə)/, /ˈjarwə/

Noun

ȝarowe (uncountable)

yarrow

Descendants

English: yarrow

References

“yarwe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-24.

Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Garbe”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “gerwe”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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