Where does “ሄምሎክ” come from?

ሄምሎክ (Amharic) comes from English hemlock, from Middle English hemlok, from Old English hymlīc, from Old English hymele, from Proto-Germanic humalaz.

ሄምሎክ (Amharic): hemlock (Conium)

Definitions

  1. hemlock (Conium)

Ancestry of “ሄምሎክ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishhemlockAny of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the...
2Middle Englishhemlokhemlock
3Old Englishhymlīchemlock
4Old Englishhymelehops, "Humulus lupulus"
5Proto-Germanichumalaz—
Every word from Proto-Germanic humalaz →Every word from Old English hymele →Every word from Old English hymlīc →
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