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• /wʊd/
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• rhymes with -ʊd
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• homophone: wood
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• Australian, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: wo͝od
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• Australian, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /wʊd/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /wɵd/
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• Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /wʉd/
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• South-Asia: /(ʋ)ʊɖ/
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• homophone: would
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• CMU ARPABET: W UH1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English wood, from Old English wōd (“mad, insane”). See the full etymology at wode.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dheh1- Proto-Indo-European *h1weydhh1- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *(h1)wéydh(h1)us Proto-Germanic *widuz Proto-West Germanic *widu Old English widu Old English wudu Middle English wode English wood From Middle English wode, from Old English wudu, widu (“wood, forest, grove; tree; timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *h1weydhh1- (“to separate”). The spelling developed as it did in wool. Cognate with Dutch wede (“wood, twig”), Middle High German wite (“wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ved (“wood”), Elfdalian wið (“wood, timber”), Faroese and Icelandic viður (“wood”), Norwegian Nynorsk ved (“wood, firewood”), vid (“wide, broad”). Further cognates include Irish fiodh (“a wood, tree”), Irish fid (“tree”) and Welsh gwŷdd (“trees”), from Proto-Celtic *widus (“wood”). Unrelated to Dutch woud (“forest”), German Wald (“forest”) (see English wold).

Back-formation from peckerwood.

437 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Spanish: lignario — attributive
• Spanish: maderero — attributive
• Abkhaz: амҿымаҭәахә (amĉʼəmatwaxw) — substance
• Acehnese: kayèe — substance
• Afar: baho — substance
• Afrikaans: hout — substance
• Ahom: 𑜉𑜩 (may) — substance
• Aiton: မ︀ႝ (may) — substance
• Alabama: itto — substance
• Albanian: dru — substance
• Amharic: እንጨት (ʾənč̣ät) — substance
• Chungli Ao: süng — substance
• Western Apache: chizh — substance
• Arabic: خَشَب (ḵašab) — substance
• Arabic: خشب (ḵašab) — substance
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܲܝܣܵܐ (qaysā) — substance
• Aramaic: ܩܝܣܐ (qaysā) — substance
• Aramaic: אָעָא (ʾāʿā) — substance
• Mandaic: ࡒࡉࡍࡎࡀ (qinsa) — substance
• Mandaic: ࡒࡉࡎࡀ (qisa) — substance
• Turoyo: ܩܰܝܣܳܐ (qayso) — substance
• Armenian: փայտ (pʻayt) — substance
• Aromanian: lemnu — substance
• Assamese: কাঠ (kath) — substance
• Asturian: madera — substance
• Avar: цӏцӏул (ccʼul) — substance
• Azerbaijani: ağac — substance
• Azerbaijani: oduncaq — substance
• Baluchi: دار (dár) — substance
• Bashkir: утын (utın) — substance
• Bashkir: үҙағас (üźağas) — substance
• Basque: zur — substance
• Belarusian: дрэ́ва (dréva) — substance
• Belarusian: драўні́на (drawnína) — substance
• Bengali: কাঠ (kaṭh) — substance
• Bhojpuri: काठ (kāṭh) — substance
• Blackfoot: mĭstcĭs — substance
• Breton: koad — substance
• Bulgarian: дърво́ (dǎrvó) — substance
• Bulgarian: дървеси́на (dǎrvesína) — substance
• Burmese: သစ် (sac) — substance
• Catalan: fusta — substance
• Chechen: дечиг (dečig) — substance
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓ (ada) — substance
• Chickasaw: itti' — substance
• Chinese Cantonese: 木 (muk6) — substance
• Chinese Mandarin: 木 (mù) — substance
• Chinese Mandarin: 木材 (mùcái) — substance
• Chinese Mandarin: 木頭 /木头 (mùtou) — substance
• Chinese Mandarin: 木料 (mùliào) — substance
• Ngazidja Comorian: mri — substance
• Coptic: ϣⲉ (še) — substance
• Cornish: koos — substance
• Crimean Tatar: taqta — substance
• Czech: dřevo — substance
• Old Czech: dřěvo — substance
• Dalmatian: lanc — substance
• Danish: træ — substance
• Danish: ved — substance
• Dongxiang: mutun — substance
• Dutch: hout — substance
• Dzongkha: ཤིང (shing) — substance
• Egyptian: xt:t*Z1 (ḫt) — substance
• Esperanto: ligno — substance
• Estonian: puit — substance
• Estonian: puu — substance
• Even: мо̄ (mō) — substance
• Evenki: мо̄ (mō) — substance
• Faroese: viður — substance
• Faroese: træ — substance
• Finnish: puu — substance
• French: bois — substance
• West-Frisian: hout — substance
• Friulian: len — substance
• Galician: madeira — substance
• Galician: fuste — substance
• Gallo: boueil — substance
• Georgian: ხე (xe) — substance
• Georgian: მერქანი (merkani) — substance
• German: Holz — substance
• Gorontalo: ayu — substance
• Greek: ξύλο (xýlo) — substance
• Greek: ξυλεία (xyleía) — substance
• Ancient Greek: ξύλον (xúlon) — substance
• Paraguayan Guarani: yvyra — substance
• Gujarati: લાકડું (lākḍũ) — substance
• Haitian Creole: bwa — substance
• Hausa: ice — substance
• Hawaiian: lāʻau — substance
• Hebrew: עֵץ (‘ets) — substance
• Hebrew: קֶרֶשׁ (keresh) — substance
• Higaonon: kayo — substance
• Hindi: लकड़ी (lakṛī) — substance
• Hindi: काठ (kāṭh) — substance
• Hindi: काष्ठ (kāṣṭh) — substance
• Hiri Motu: au — substance
• Hopi: koho — substance
• Hungarian: fa — substance
• Hunsrik: Hols — substance
• Icelandic: viður — substance
• Ilocano: kayo — substance
• Indonesian: kayu — substance
• Ingush: дахча (daxča) — substance
• Interlingua: ligno — substance
• Irish: adhmad — substance
• Old Irish: fid — substance
• Istriot: lìgno — substance
• Italian: legno — substance
• Japanese: 木 (ki) — substance
• Japanese: 木材 (mokuzai) — substance
• Kapampangan: dutung — substance
• Karakhanid: يِغَجْ (yïɣač) — substance
• Kazakh: ағаш (ağaş) — substance
• Khmer: ឈើ (chəə) — substance
• Korean: 나무 (namu) — substance
• Korean: 목재 (mokjae) — substance
• Central Kurdish: دار (dar) — substance
• Central Kurdish: چێو (çêw) — substance
• Laki: چوو (çû) — substance
• Northern Kurdish: dar — substance
• Kyrgyz: жыгач (jıgac) — substance
• Ladin: legn — substance
• Ladin: lën — substance
• Lakota: čháŋ — substance
• Lao: ໄມ້ (mai) — substance
• Latgalian: kūks — substance
• Latgalian: kūkna — substance
• Latin: lignum — substance
• Latvian: koks — substance
• Latvian: koksne — substance
• Ligurian: légno — substance
• Lithuanian: medis — substance
• Livonian: pū — substance
• Lombard: legn — substance
• Lü: ᦺᦙᧉ (may2) — substance
• Luxembourgish: Holz — substance
• Macedonian: дрво (drvo) — substance
• Malagasy: hazo — substance
• Malay: kayu — substance
• Maltese: injam — substance
• Manchu: ᠮᠣᠣ (moo) — substance
• Mansaka: kaoy — substance
• Manx: aamaid — substance
• Maranao: kayo — substance
• Marathi: लाकूड (lākūḍ) — substance
• Maricopa: 'ii — substance
• Marshallese: aļaļ — substance
• Mauritian Creole: dibwa — substance
• Mingo: úwẽ'kææ' — substance
• Mingo: uyêta' — substance
• Mòcheno: holz — substance
• Mohawk: oyente — substance
• Mon: ဆု — substance
• Mongolian: мод (mod) — substance
• Motu: au — substance
• Mwani: mbawo — substance
• Nauruan: edabwike — substance
• Navajo: tsin — substance
• Neapolitan: ligno — substance
• Nepali: काठ (kāth) — substance
• Nogai: агаш (agaş) — substance
• Norwegian: tre — substance
• Norwegian: treverk — substance
• Norwegian: ved — substance
• Occitan: fusta — substance
• Odia: କାଠ (kāṭha) — substance
• Ojibwe: mitig — substance
• Old English: holt — substance
• Old Tupi: ybyrá — substance
• Old Turkic: 𐰃𐰍𐰲 (ïɣač) — substance
• Ossetian: хъӕд (qæd) — substance
• Panamint: huuppin — substance
• Pashto: لرګی (largay) — substance
• Pennsylvania German: Hols — substance
• Persian: چوب (čub) — substance
• Middle Persian: 𐭰𐭥𐭯 (čōb) — substance
• Piedmontese: legn — substance
• Plautdietsch: Holt (nds) — substance
• Polish: drewno — substance
• Portuguese: madeira — substance
• Powhatan: mushe — substance
• Punjabi: ਕਾਠ (kāṭh) — substance
• Rohingya: gas — substance
• Romagnol: lègn — substance
• Romani: kaśt — substance
• Romanian: lemn — substance
• Romansh: lain — substance
• Russian: де́рево (dérevo) — substance
• Russian: древеси́на (drevesína) — substance
• Russian: лес (les) — substance
• Russian: лесоматериа́л (lesomateriál) — substance
• Saek: ไม — substance
• Saho: boxo — substance
• Sanskrit: काष्ठ (kāṣṭha) — substance
• Sanskrit: दारु (dāru) — substance
• Sardinian: linna — substance
• Scottish Gaelic: fiodh — substance
• Serbo-Croatian: дрво — substance
• Serbo-Croatian: drvo — substance
• Shan: မႆႉ (mâ̰i) — substance
• Sicilian: lignu — substance
• Slovak: drevo — substance
• Slovene: les — substance
• Slovene: gozd — substance
• Lower Sorbian: drjewo — substance
• Spanish: madera — substance
• Spanish: fuste — substance
• Spanish: leñame — substance
• Spanish: palo — substance
• Sranan Tongo: udu — substance
• Sumerian: 𒄑 (g̃eš) — substance
• Swahili: mbao — substance
• Swedish: trä — substance
• Swedish: ved — substance
• Sylheti: ꠇꠣꠑ (xaṭó) — substance
• Tagalog: kahoy — substance
• Tai Dam: ꪼꪣ꫁ — substance
• Tai Nüa: ᥛᥭᥳ (mȧy) — substance
• Tajik: чӯб (čüb) — substance
• Taos: łòʼóne — substance
• Tarifit: tafrewt — substance
• Tatar: агач (ağaç) — substance
• Tatar: үзагач (üzağaç) — substance
• Thai: ไม้ (máai) — substance
• Northern Thai: ᨾᩱ᩶ — substance
• Tibetan: ཤིང (shing) — substance
• Classical Tibetan: ཤིང་ (shing) — substance
• Tigrinya: ዕንጨይቲ (ʿənč̣äyti) — substance
• Tocharian A: or — substance
• Tocharian B: or — substance
• Tok Pisin: diwai — substance
• Tumbuka: khuni — substance
• Tupinambá: ybyrá — substance
• Turkish: odun — substance
• Turkmen: agaç — substance
• Tuvan: ыяш (ıyaş) — substance
• Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎕 (ʿṣ) — substance
• Ukrainian: де́рево (dérevo) — substance
• Ukrainian: деревина́ (derevyná) — substance
• Urdu: لکڑی (lakṛī) — substance
• Uyghur: ياغاچ (yaghach) — substance
• Uzbek: o'tin — substance
• Uzbek: yog'och — substance
• Venetan: legn — substance
• Venetan: łegno — substance
• Vietnamese: gỗ — substance
• Vilamovian: hułc — substance
• Wageman: guda — substance
• Welsh: coed — substance
• Welsh: pren — substance
• Yámana: yaku — substance
• Yucatec Maya: cheʼ — substance
• Zazaki: kolı — substance
• Zhuang: faex — substance
• Zulu: umuthi — substance
• Zulu: ukhuni class 11/10 — substance
• Bulgarian: дърво́ (dǎrvó) — wood from a particular species
• Catalan: fusta — wood from a particular species
• Chickasaw: itti' — wood from a particular species
• Ngazidja Comorian: mri — wood from a particular species
• Czech: dřevo — wood from a particular species
• Dutch: houtsoort — wood from a particular species
• Finnish: puulaji — wood from a particular species
• French: bois — wood from a particular species
• Galician: madeira — wood from a particular species
• German: Holz — wood from a particular species
• German: Holzart — wood from a particular species
• Italian: legname — wood from a particular species
• Ladin: legnam — wood from a particular species
• Ladin: lënia — wood from a particular species
• Latin: materia — wood from a particular species
• Macedonian: дрво (drvo) — wood from a particular species
• Malay: kayu — wood from a particular species
• Norwegian: treslag — wood from a particular species
• Norwegian: tresort — wood from a particular species
• Norwegian: ved — wood from a particular species
• Persian: چوب (čôb) — wood from a particular species
• Plautdietsch: Holt (nds) — wood from a particular species
• Polish: drzewo — wood from a particular species
• Polish: drewno — wood from a particular species
• Portuguese: madeira — wood from a particular species
• Russian: де́рево (dérevo) — wood from a particular species
• Russian: древеси́на (drevesína) — wood from a particular species
• Scottish Gaelic: fiodh — wood from a particular species
• Spanish: madera — wood from a particular species
• Swedish: träslag — wood from a particular species
• Tagalog: kahoy — wood from a particular species
• Tok Pisin: diwai — wood from a particular species
• Ukrainian: де́рево (dérevo) — wood from a particular species
• Ukrainian: деревина́ (derevyná) — wood from a particular species
• Zazaki: qab — wood from a particular species
• Albanian: pyll — woodland
• Armenian: անտառ (antaṙ) — woodland
• Bulgarian: гора́ (gorá) — woodland
• Catalan: bosc — woodland
• Corsican: boscu — woodland
• Czech: les — woodland
• Dalmatian: buasc — woodland
• Dutch: woud — woodland
• Dutch: woudland — woodland
• Esperanto: arbareto — woodland
• Finnish: metsä — woodland
• Finnish: metsikkö — woodland
• Franco-Provençal: bouesc — woodland
• French: bois — woodland
• Friulian: selve — woodland
• Friulian: bosc — woodland
• Galician: fraga — woodland
• Gallo: boueil — woodland
• Georgian: ტყე (ṭq̇e) — woodland
• German: Waldland — woodland
• German: Waldung — woodland
• Greek: δάσος (dásos) — woodland
• Icelandic: skógur — woodland
• Indonesian: hutan — woodland
• Interlingua: bosco — woodland
• Irish: coill — woodland
• Irish: ros — woodland
• Old Irish: caill — woodland
• Old Irish: fid — woodland
• Italian: bosco — woodland
• Korean: 숲 (sup) — woodland
• Korean: 수풀 (supul) — woodland
• Ladin: bosch — woodland
• Latin: silva — woodland
• Latin: nemus — woodland
• Ligurian: forèsto — woodland
• Lombard: bosch — woodland
• Luxembourgish: Bësch — woodland
• Macedonian: шума (šuma) — woodland
• Macedonian: корија (korija) — woodland
• Mòcheno: bòlt — woodland
• Neapolitan: vosco — woodland
• Nepali: झाडी (jhāṛi) — woodland
• Norwegian Bokmål: skog — woodland
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skog — woodland
• Occitan: bòsc — woodland
• Old Church Slavonic: лѣсъ (lěsŭ) — woodland
• Persian: بیشه (biše) — woodland
• Persian: درختزار (deraxtzâr) — woodland
• Piedmontese: bosch — woodland
• Plautdietsch: Woolt — woodland
• Polish: las — woodland
• Polish: bór — woodland
• Polish: knieja — woodland
• Portuguese: bosque — woodland
• Romanian: pădure — woodland
• Romanian: codru — woodland
• Romanian: teren păduros — woodland
• Russian: лес (les) — woodland
• Sanskrit: वन (vana) — woodland
• Spanish: bosque — woodland
• Swedish: skog — woodland
• Tajik: беша (beša) — woodland
• Tajik: ҷангал (jangal) — woodland
• Tocharian B: wartto — woodland
• Tocharian B: karāś — woodland
• Ottoman Turkish: اورمان (orman) — woodland
• Ottoman Turkish: میشه (meşe) — woodland
• Ukrainian: ліс (lis) — woodland
• Venetan: bosco — woodland
• Venetan: bòsch — woodland
• Woiwurrung: kalk — woodland
• Zulu: ihlathi — woodland
• Basque: egur — firewood — see also firewood
• Bulgarian: дърва́ (dǎrvá) — firewood — see also firewood
• Catalan: llenya — firewood — see also firewood
• Czech: dřevo — firewood — see also firewood
• Czech: dříví — firewood — see also firewood
• Dutch: hout — firewood — see also firewood
• Finnish: puut — firewood — see also firewood
• Finnish: polttopuu — firewood — see also firewood
• French: bois de chauffage — firewood — see also firewood
• Galician: leña — firewood — see also firewood
• Georgian: შეშა (šeša) — firewood — see also firewood
• German: Holz — firewood — see also firewood
• Greek: ξύλα (xýla) — firewood — see also firewood
• Icelandic: viður — firewood — see also firewood
• Indonesian: kayu bakar — firewood — see also firewood
• Interlingua: ligno — firewood — see also firewood
• Italian: legna — firewood — see also firewood
• Korean: 땔나무 (ttaellamu) — firewood — see also firewood
• Ladin: leniam — firewood — see also firewood
• Ladin: lënia — firewood — see also firewood
• Ladin: lënia da tizé — firewood — see also firewood
• Latin: līgnum — firewood — see also firewood
• Latvian: malka — firewood — see also firewood
• Macedonian: дрво за огрев (drvo za ogrev) — firewood — see also firewood
• Nepali: दाउरा (dāurā) — firewood — see also firewood
• Norwegian: ved — firewood — see also firewood
• Occitan: lenha — firewood — see also firewood
• Persian: هیزم (hizom) — firewood — see also firewood
• Persian: هیمه (hima) — firewood — see also firewood
• Polish: drewno opałowe — firewood — see also firewood
• Polish: drewno na opał — firewood — see also firewood
• Portuguese: lenha — firewood — see also firewood
• Russian: дрова́ (drová) — firewood — see also firewood
• Sicilian: ligna — firewood — see also firewood
• Spanish: leña — firewood — see also firewood
• Swedish: ved — firewood — see also firewood
• Tok Pisin: paiawut — firewood — see also firewood
• Tok Pisin: diwai — firewood — see also firewood
• Turkish: odun — firewood — see also firewood
• Ottoman Turkish: اوطون (odun) — firewood — see also firewood
• Ukrainian: дро́ва (dróva) — firewood — see also firewood
• Venetan: legne — firewood — see also firewood
• Zulu: ukhuni class 11/10 — firewood — see also firewood
• Catalan: fusta — type of golf club
• Czech: dřevo — type of golf club
• Finnish: puu — type of golf club
• Finnish: puumaila — type of golf club
• German: Holz — type of golf club
• Icelandic: tré — type of golf club
• Bulgarian: духов инструмент — music: woodwind instrument
• Czech: dřeva — music: woodwind instrument
• Finnish: puupuhallin — music: woodwind instrument
• Italian: legni — music: woodwind instrument
• Bulgarian: надървяне (nadǎrvjane) — slang: an erection
• Finnish: stondis — slang: an erection
• Finnish: kanki — slang: an erection
• German: Latte — slang: an erection
• Macedonian: дрво (drvo) — slang: an erection
• Macedonian: стап (stap) — slang: an erection
• Macedonian: ша́тор (šátor) — slang: an erection
• Portuguese: tusa — slang: an erection
• Portuguese: tesão — slang: an erection
• Russian: стоя́к (stoják) — slang: an erection
• Zazaki: qazığ — slang: an erection
• Bulgarian: залеся́вам (zalesjávam) — to cover or plant with trees
• Dutch: bebossen — to cover or plant with trees
• Finnish: metsittää — to cover or plant with trees
• Finnish: istuttaa metsää — to cover or plant with trees
• German: aufforsten — to cover or plant with trees
• Italian: rimboschire — to cover or plant with trees
• Macedonian: пошумува (pošumuva) — to cover or plant with trees
• Portuguese: florestar — to cover or plant with trees
• Spanish: forestar — to cover or plant with trees