Where does “Wood Wide Web” come from?
Wood Wide Web (English) comes from English World Wide Web, from English worldwide, from English World, from Middle English world, from Old English weorold, from Proto-West Germanic weraldi, from Proto-Germanic weraldiz, from Proto-Germanic weraz — to chase, pursue; to suppress, persecute.
Wood Wide Web (English): Mycorrhizal networks, that is networks of fungi that connect trees, collectively
Definitions
- Mycorrhizal networks, that is networks of fungi that connect trees, collectively
Ancestry of “Wood Wide Web”, step by step
Wood Wide Web traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English World Wide Web
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | World Wide Web | Usually preceded by the: all of the hypertext documents (web pages) on the Internet collectively, which are (1) stored in various inter-hyperlinked computers around the world, and (2) retrieved typically by means of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or (currently more often) its secure version |
| 2 | English | worldwide | Spanning the world; global; Throughout the world |
| 3 | English | World | The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds |
| 4 | Middle English | world | The world, the planet; A dimension, realm, or... |
| 5 | Old English | weorold | world |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | weraldi | world |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | weraldiz | lifetime, worldly existence; mankind; world |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | weraz | man; husband |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | wiHrós | man; husband; warrior, hero |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | weyh₁- | to chase, pursue; to suppress, persecute |
via English Wood
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Wood | An English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood |
| 2 | English | Frog | Alternative form of frog |
| 3 | Portuguese | froco | flock |
| 4 | Latin | floccus | tuft, wisp of wool |
| 5 | Frankish | flokko | down, wool, flock |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | *flukkô | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | plewk- | to fly, flow, run; to splash, to flap with hands |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | plew- | to fly, flow, run |