köken: From Middle High German wolfsmilch, from Old High German wolfesmilch, *wolfesmiluh. Equivalent to Wolf (“wolf”) + -s- + Milch (“milk”), after the plant's acrid sap. Compare Dutch wolfsmelk and Polish wilczomlecz.
sun spurge, Euphorbia helioscopia · spurge (any plant of the genus Euphorbia)
köken: Literally, “light house grass”, 灯台(とうだい) (tōdai, “light house, light pole”) + 草(くさ) (kusa, “grass, plant”). The kusa changes to gusa as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
köken: From Old Swedish þyril, from Old Norse þyrill, from Proto-Germanic *þwerilaz. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk tverel, Icelandic þyrill, Middle Low German dwiril.
spurge (any plant of the genus Euphorbia) · dandelion (plant, wild flower of the genus Taraxacum)
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From llaeth (“milk”) + llys (“herb, plant”). In the case of Euphorbia, the name originates from the milky sap of these plants. Polygala vulgaris is so named because it was believed to induce milk production in cattle.