eccle-grassn.

Forms: 1800s– eccle-grass, 1900s– eccle-girse, 1900s– ekel-girs, 1900s– ekkel-girse.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English eccle , grass n.¹

Etymology: Apparently < Orkney Scots eccle lump, excrescence, especially in the flesh of an animal (although this is first attested later: see note) + grass n.¹, perhaps reflecting an unattested Norn compound, probably so called on account of the shape of its hibernaculum.Orkney Scots eccle (1929 or earlier) is < an unattested Norn cognate of Norwegian regional økl , in the same sense, variant of Norwegian øksel , cognate with Old Icelandic œxl (Icelandic æxli ), Old Swedish oxl (Swedish †oxel ), Old Danish oksel (Danish regional oksel , øksel ) < a suffixed form of an ablaut variant of the Germanic base of wax v.¹ Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈeccle-grass.

(See quot. 1806.)

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1806 P. Neill Tour Orkney & Shetl. 191 Pinguicula vulgaris..or common butterwort..in Orkney is known by the name of Eccle-grass.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	eccle-grass
释义	eccle-grassn. Forms: 1800s– eccle-grass, 1900s– eccle-girse, 1900s– ekel-girs, 1900s– ekkel-girse. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English eccle , grass n.¹ Etymology: Apparently < Orkney Scots eccle lump, excrescence, especially in the flesh of an animal (although this is first attested later: see note) + grass n.¹, perhaps reflecting an unattested Norn compound, probably so called on account of the shape of its hibernaculum.Orkney Scots eccle (1929 or earlier) is < an unattested Norn cognate of Norwegian regional økl , in the same sense, variant of Norwegian øksel , cognate with Old Icelandic œxl (Icelandic æxli ), Old Swedish oxl (Swedish †oxel ), Old Danish oksel (Danish regional oksel , øksel ) < a suffixed form of an ablaut variant of the Germanic base of wax v.¹ Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈeccle-grass. (See quot. 1806.) ΚΠ 1806 P. Neill Tour Orkney & Shetl. 191 Pinguicula vulgaris..or common butterwort..in Orkney is known by the name of Eccle-grass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1806
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