# wode
## English
### Etymology 1

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”)).

#### Alternative forms

* wood

#### Adjective

wode (comparative woder, superlative wodest)
* (obsolete) Mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
** a. 1588, Jasper Heywood, quoted in James Petite Andews, The History of Great Britain, published 1806
    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 2

See woad.

#### Noun

wode (uncountable)
* Obsolete spelling of woad.

### Anagrams

* Dowe, owed

## Middle English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwoːd(ə)/

### Etymology 1

From Old English wōd, from Proto-West Germanic *wōd, from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂tós.

#### Noun

wode (uncountable)
* madness, insanity, an overmastering emotion, rage, fury
** c. 1400, Laud Troy Book:When thei saw hir for wode so wilde Thei did lede hir ... With-oute the toun […] And stoned hir to dethe.When they saw her rage so wild, They did lead her ... out the town [...] And stoned her to death.
** (Can we date this quote?), Dan Michel of Northgate, Ayenbite of Inwyt:At cherche kan god […] yelde þe wyttes of þe wode.t(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Verb

wode
* To be or go mad; be or go out of one's mind; behave wildly; be frenzied; go out of control.
** c. 1382 (date written)​, Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “Boetius de consolatione Philosophie”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC:Vices woden to destroyen men by wounde of thought.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* to be or become furious, enraged.
** c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:Whan I ne may my ladi se, The more I am redy to wraththe […] I wode as doth the wylde Se.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) woden, wode | (to) woden, wode |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | wode | woded |
| 2nd-person singular | wodest | wodedest |
| 3rd-person singular | wodeth | woded |
| subjunctive singular | wode | woded |
| imperative singular | wode | — |
| plural$^1$ | woden, wode | wodeden, wodede |
| imperative plural | wodeth, wode | — |
| participles | wodynge, wodende | woded, ywoded |
$^1$Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

#### Adverb

wode
* frantically
* ferociously, fiercely
* intensely, furiously
** c. 1374–1385 (date written)​, Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The House of Fame”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC:Lat us to the peple seme Suche as the world may of us deme That wommen loven us for wod.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* furiously enraged, irate, angry
    He was wod wroth and wold do Thomas ... to deth. — Mirk's Festial: A Collection of Homilies by (Can we date this quote by Johannes Mirkus and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
    When þe wale kyng wist, he wex wode wroth. — (Can we date this quote by Wars of Alexander and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

#### Adjective

wode
* mad, insane, possessed, furious, frantic, mentally deranged, of unsound mind, out of one's mind.
* rabid
* wild, not tamed

##### Derived terms

* brain wode (“out of one's mind”)
* waxen wode (“to become mad because of (sth.), be made mad by”)
* wode sik (“insane, mad”)
* woded, wodehedde (“madness, lunacy, mental illness”)
* wodeman (“a madman”)
* woden-drēm (“madness, insane folly”)
* wodewosen (“to run wild, become mad”)

##### Descendants

* English: wode, wood
* Scots: wod, wode, wud, wude, wuid

##### References

* “wode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* Middle English Dictionary

### Etymology 2

From Old English wudu, from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz; see wood.

#### Noun

wode
* wood (material).

##### Descendants

* English: wood
* Scots: wod, wuid

##### References

* “wode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* Middle English Dictionary

#### Verb

wode
* To hunt.
* To take to the woods; hide oneself in the woods (also reflexive: ben woded).

##### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) wode, wode | (to) wode, wode |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | wode | woded |
| 2nd-person singular | wodest | wodedest |
| 3rd-person singular | wodeth | woded |
| subjunctive singular | wode | woded |
| imperative singular | wode | — |
| plural$^1$ | woden, wode | wodeden, wodede |
| imperative plural | wodeth, wode | — |
| participles | wodynge, wodende | woded, ywoded |
$^1$Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

##### Derived terms

* wodeward (“forester”)

##### References

* “wode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* Middle English Dictionary

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

wode
* Alternative form of waden

## Old English
### Verb

wōde
* second-person singular preterite indicative of wadan

## Yola
### Verb

wode
* Alternative form of woode
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:Yith w'had any lhuck, oor naame wode b' zung,If we had any luck, our name would have been sung
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:Wode zar; mot, all arkagh var ee barnaugh-blowe,Would serve; but, all eager for the barnagh-stroke,

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78