1801: wood (adj) Nov 19, 2019

As mentioned yesterday, 'wood' is not related to the Dutch 'would' (forest), but nor is it also related to the now obsolete adjective 'wood' meaning 'violently insane'. Actually, neither that nor 'nuts'—also meaning 'crazy'—actually related to trees. Instead, it is related to the Modern German 'Wut' meaning 'rage', and the Old Irish 'faith' meaning 'poet'.

See yesterday's post here.