Wood Definition
An English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood.
An English occupational surname for a woodsman.
- Free of a difficult or hazardous situation; in a position of safety or security.
- a phrase used, often accompanying the touching of something wooden, as after an optimistic statement so as not to tempt fate
- out of difficulty, danger, etc.
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Origin of Wood
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From Middle English wode, from Old English wudu, widu (“wood, forest, grove; tree; timber"), from Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood"), from Proto-Indo-European *widÊ°u-. Cognate with Old High German witu, Old Norse viðr (Danish and Swedish ved).
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Middle English from Old English wōd wet-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English, from Old English wōd. See the full etymology at wode.
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Middle English wode from Old English wudu
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Back-formation from peckerwood.
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