mugwort

English

mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English mugwort, mugwyrt, mucgwurt, from Old English mucgwyrt, mucwyrt et al., from Proto-Germanic; probably corresponding to midge +‎ wort. Cognate with regional Low German muggart, mugwurz.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌɡwɜːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌɡwɝt/

Noun

mugwort (countable and uncountable, plural mugworts)

1. Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia.
2. Artemisia vulgaris, traditionally used medicinally.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 197:

     Mugwort is with good success put among other herbs that are boiled, for women to sit over the hot decoction to draw down their courses, to help the delivery of the birth and expel the afterbirth, as also for the obstructions and inflammations of the mother.

   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 258:

     Peony would keep away any kind of storms. Mugwort hung over doorways on Midsummer's Day, June 24, would keep off lightning, as St. John's-Wort would if gathered before sunrise on that day.

Derived terms

• Artemisia argyi - Chinese mugwort, used in traditional Chinese medicine
• Artemisia douglasiana - Douglas mugwort, native to western North America
• Artemisia glacialis - alpine mugwort
• Artemisia indica - Japanese mugwort
• Artemisia japonica - Oriental mugwort
• Artemisia norvegica - Norwegian mugwort
• Artemisia princeps - Japanese mugwort ("yomogi"), Korean mugwort ("ssuk"), used as a culinary herb and in traditional Chinese medicine.
• Artemisia stelleriana - hoary mugwort
• Artemisia verlotiorum - Chinese mugwort
• California mugwort

 

Translations

any of several artemisias

• Azerbaijani: yovşan (az)
• Czech: pelyněk (cs) m
• Danish: bynke
• Esperanto: artemizio
• Finnish: maruna (fi)
• French: armoise (fr) f
• Georgian: მამულა (mamula)
• Ido: artemizio (io)
• Japanese: 蓬 (ja) (ヨモギ, yomogi)
• Korean: 쑥 (ko) (ssuk)
• Nogai: ювсан (yuvsan)
• Polish: bylica f
• Portuguese: artemísia (pt) f
• Romanian: pelin (ro) m
• Russian: полы́нь (ru) f (polýnʹ)
• Spanish: artemisa f
• Svan: მუქვა̄სჷ̄რა (mukvāsə̄ra)
• Swedish: malört (sv) c
• Turkish: yavşan (tr)
• Ukrainian: поли́н m (polýn)

Artemisia vulgaris

• Armenian:

  Middle Armenian: բարձուենեկ (barjuenek)

• Bulgarian: див пелин m (div pelin)
• Catalan: altimira (ca) f
• Czech: pelyněk černobýl (cs) m
• Danish: grå-bynke
• Dutch: bijvoet (nl) m
• Finnish: pujo (fi)
• French: armoise commune (fr) f
• German: Beifuß (de) m, gemeiner Beifuß m
• Hungarian: fekete üröm (hu)
• Irish: liathlus m
• Japanese: 欧州蓬 (オウシュウヨモギ, ōshūyomogi)
• Korean: 쑥 (ko) (ssuk)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: арым (arym)

• Middle English: mugwort
• Persian: بلنجاسپ (balanjâsp), برنجاسف (fa) (baranjâsf)
• Polish: bylica pospolita (pl) f
• Portuguese: artemísia (pt) f, artemigem f
• Romanian: pelinariță (ro) f
• Russian: чернобы́л (ru) m (černobýl), чернобы́ль (ru) m (černobýlʹ), чернобы́льник (ru) m (černobýlʹnik)
• Spanish: altamisa f, hierba de San Juan (es) f
• Swedish: gråbo (sv) c
• Ukrainian: чорно́биль m (čornóbylʹ)
• Venetan: sinsioło m
• Welsh: beidiog lwyd (cy) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} artemizio
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 머그워트 (meogeuwoteu)
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 艾草 (zh) (àicǎo), ^{(please verify)} 蒿屬 / 蒿属 (zh) (hāoshǔ), ^{(please verify)} 野艾 (yě'ài)
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} hèrbe d'St Jean f (Jersey)

See also

• absinthe, artemisia, sagebrush, tarragon, vermouth, wormwood

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mogwort, mogworte, mucgwurt, muggeworte, mugwourth, mugwurt, mugwyrt

Etymology

From Old English mucgwyrt; possibly equivalent to mydge +‎ wort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɡwurt/

Noun

mugwort (uncountable)

1. wormwood, mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)

Descendants

• English: mugwort
• Scots: muggart
  • ⇒ Scots: muggins

References

• “mug-wort, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.