köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (sysymbl), [script needed] (sysynbl /sīsīmbar/, “sisymbrium, wild thyme”), from Ancient Greek σισύμβριον (sisúmbrion).
köken: From Ancient Greek ἕρπυλλος (hérpullos). This spelling is educated. In Old Latin the spelling serpullum was dominating, the Greek origin not being well known, and this form stays in speech up to Romance.
thyme (any plant of the genus Thymus) · wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum)
köken: Borrowed from Russian тимья́н (timʹján), ultimately from Ancient Greek θῡμίαμα (thūmíama). Cognate to German Thymian, with a different syllable stress. Compare also Polish tymianek.
From Middle High German quendel, quennel, quenel etc., from Old High German quenela, from Proto-West Germanic *kwenelā, *kunilā (“wild thyme, savory”).