hemlock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hemlok, hemeluc, from Old English hemlīc, hymlīc m and hymlīce f (“hemlock, bryony, convolvulus”), of uncertain origin.
speculative etymology
Compare Old English hymele (“hop-vine, hops”), Old English humele (“bryony, widerton, hair moss, gold-hair, morning glory”), Danish and Swedish humle (“hops”), Icelandic humall (“hops”). Perhaps from Scythian, from Proto-Iranian *háwHmah (“ephedra; juice”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwHmas from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁- (“to press out, extract”).
;cognates
* (from Sarmato-Scythian *haumala) Ossetian хумӕллӕг (xumællæg, “hops”)
* (from Sarmato-Scythian *hauma) Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀 (haoma), Baluchi [script needed] (hum), Persian هوم (hôm))
* (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma) Sanskrit सोम (soma))
More at suck.
Inflected forms:
form: hemlocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.
In the Tyrol, on May Day, it was the custom to smoke out witches by burning bundles of black and red spotted hemlock. In the eighteenth century hemlock was used for treating cancer, syphilis, and ulcers.
There were bunches of wild garlic to keep out evil spirits, foxgloves for healing spells and hemlock and vervain for darker magic.
gloss: Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The wind blows and the hemlocks wave their feathery leading shoots. Such a graceful profile, so elegant a tree.
Synonyms: devil's bread
devil's porridge
herb bennet
poison hemlock
poison parsley
Conium maculatum
Conium chaerophylloides
Derived words: Canadian hemlock
Carolina hemlock
Chinese hemlock
eastern hemlock
Forrest's hemlock
gosh all hemlock
ground hemlock
hemlock leather
hemlock parsley
hemlock water parsnip
hemlock woolly adelgid
hemlocky
Himalayan hemlock
mountain hemlock
northern Japanese hemlock
Patton's hemlock
poison hemlock
southern Japanese hemlock
Taiwan hemlock
western hemlock
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: kukutë
lang: Albanian
word: magunë
lang: Amharic
word: ሄምሎክ
roman: hemlok
lang: Arabic
word: شَوْكَرَان
roman: šawkarān
lang: Armenian
word: մոլեխինդ
roman: molexind
lang: Old Armenian
word: մոլախինդ
roman: molaxind
lang: Aromanian
word: cucutã
lang: Belarusian
word: балігало́ў
roman: balihalów
lang: Belarusian
word: о́мег
roman: ómjeh
lang: Belarusian
word: аме́жнік
roman: amjéžnik
lang: Bulgarian
word: бучини́ш
roman: bučiníš
lang: Bulgarian
word: мангу́на
roman: mangúna
lang: Catalan
word: cicuta
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 毒芹
roman: dúqín
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 毒参
roman: dúcān
lang: Cornish
word: kegis
lang: Cornish
word: kegisen
lang: Czech
word: bolehlav
lang: Danish
word: skarntyde
lang: Dutch
word: scheerling
lang: Finnish
word: katko
lang: Finnish
word: myrkkykatko
lang: French
word: ciguë
lang: Galician
word: canafrecha
lang: German
word: Schierling
lang: German
word: Gefleckter Schierling
lang: German
word: Fleckenschierling
lang: Greek
word: κώνειο
roman: kóneio
lang: Greek
word: κιρκούτα
roman: kirkoúta
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κώνειον
roman: kṓneion
lang: Greek
word: μαγγοῦνα
roman: mangoûna
lang: Greek
word: μαγκοῦνα
roman: mankoûna
lang: Greek
word: μαγγοῦτα
roman: mangoûta
lang: Greek
word: μαγκοῦτα
roman: mankoûta
lang: Hebrew
word: רֹאשׁ
roman: rōš
lang: Hungarian
word: bürök
lang: Italian
word: cicuta
lang: Japanese
word: 毒人参
roman: dokuninjin
lang: Kazakh
word: убалдырған
roman: ubaldyrğan
lang: Korean
word: 독당근
roman: dokdanggeun
lang: Latin
word: cicūta
lang: Lithuanian
word: mauda
lang: Macedonian
word: бу́чумиш
roman: búčumiš
lang: Persian
word: شوکران
roman: šawkarân
lang: Polish
word: szczwół
lang: Portuguese
word: cicuta
lang: Romanian
word: cucută
lang: Russian
word: болиголо́в
roman: boligolóv
lang: Russian
word: оме́г
roman: omég
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: i-teodha
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: a-theodha
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: de-theodha
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ку̀кута
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kùkuta
lang: Slovene
word: míšjak
lang: Spanish
word: cicuta
lang: Turkish
word: baldıran (tr)
lang: Turkish
word: ağı otu
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بالدران
roman: baldıran
lang: Ukrainian
word: болиголо́в
roman: bolyholóv
lang: Ukrainian
word: оме́г
roman: oméh
lang: Ukrainian
word: оме́жник
roman: oméžnyk
lang: Volapük
word: konid
lang: Volapük
word: stenöfakonid
lang: Volapük
word: konidavenen
lang: Welsh
word: cegid