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22. Wode....

English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English wode, from Old English wōd ‎ “mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous”), from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wāt- ‎ “prophet”). Cognate with Middle Dutch woet (Dutch woede), Old High German wuot (German Wut ‎ “fury”)), Old Norse óðr, Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌸𐍃 ‎ wōþs, “demonically possessed”). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin vates ‎ “seer, prophet”), Old Irish fáith ‎ “seer”), Welsh gwawd ‎ “song”).

Alternative forms[edit]
wood
Adjective[edit]
wode ‎ comparative woder, superlative wodest)

(archaic) Mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.  [quotations ▼]
Etymology 2[edit]
See woad

Noun[edit]
wode ‎ uncountable)

Obsolete spelling of woad
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English wōd, see above.

Noun[edit]
wode (uncountable)

madness, insanity an overmastering emotion, rage, fury
When thei saw hir for wode so wilde Thei did lede hir ... With-oute the toun ... And stoned hir to dethe. — The Laud Troy Book
At cherche kan god ... yelde þe wyttes of þe wode. — Ayenbite of Inwyt
Verb[edit]
wode (third-person singular simple present wodeth, present participle wodende, simple past and past participle woded)

To be or go mad; be or go out of one's mind; behave wildly; be frenzied; go out of control.
Vices woden to destroyen men by wounde of thought. — Chaucer
to be or become furious, enraged.
Whan I ne may my ladi se, The more I am redy to wraththe ... I wode as doth the wylde Se. — Gower
Conjugation[edit]
[show ▼]Conjugation of wode
Adverb[edit]
wode

frantically
ferociously, fiercely
intensely, furiously
Lat us to the peple seme Suche as the world may of us deme That wommen loven us for wod. — Chaucer
furiously enraged, irate, angry
He was wod wroth and wold do Thomas ... to deth. — Mirk's Festial: A Collection of Homilies by Johannes Mirkus
When þe wale kyng wist, he wex wode wroth. — Wars of Alexander
Adjective[edit]
wode

mad, insane, possessed, furious, frantic, mentally deranged, of unsound mind, out of one's mind.
rabid
wild, not tamed
Derived terms[edit]
wodeman — a madman
wode sik — insane, mad
brain wode — out of one's mind
waxen wode from — to become mad because of (sth.), be made mad by
woden-drēm — madness, insane folly
wodewosen — to run wild, become mad
woded, wodehedde — madness, lunacy, mental illness
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old English wudu see wood.

Noun[edit]
wode

wood (material).
Verb[edit]
[show ▼]Conjugation of wode
To hunt.
To take to the woods; hide oneself in the woods (also reflexive: ben woded).
Derived terms[edit]
wodewarde, forester
Descendants[edit]
English: wood


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all the crying smiley faces come up instead of the 1st parenthesis ( . I don't know exactly why because it doesn't do it every time, but I kept them because.... I like it

I also like how "prophet" went to "“mad, raging, enraged, insane, senseless, blasphemous” and “demonically possessed”. Makes sense