köken: From Old Norse urt, oblique case form of Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wrd- (“root”). Compare with English wort and the Latin rādīx (“root”). Cognate with the Icelandic rót; Old English rōt (whence Middle English root (“the underground part of a plant”), whence English root).
köken: Etymology tree Sanskrit ओष॑धि (óṣadhi)vṛd. Sanskrit औ॒ष॒ध (auṣadhá)bor. Hindi औषध Borrowed from Sanskrit औ॒ष॒ध (auṣadhá), a vṛddhi derivative of ओष॑धि (óṣadhi). Doublet of औखध (aukhadh).
köken: Inherited from Old Czech bylina. Cognate with Russian были́нка (bylínka). Equivalent to býlí + -ina, from Old Czech býlé, from Proto-Slavic *bylьje.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese erva (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin herba. Cognate, among others, with Portuguese erva and Spanish hierba.
köken: Of the same origin as Old Armenian բալախ (balax, “Salicornia”), Armenian բալախ (balax, “Salicornia; (in dialects) the name of various grasses”). The direction of borrowing is uncertain. Klimov / Xalilov derive the Georgian from Armenian, whereas Ačaṙyan takes the derivation in the opposite direction. The same word is found in other languages of the region, including Turkish, Azeri and Kurdish, in…