nettle

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  1. noun Any of numerous plants of the genus Urtica, having toothed leaves, unisexual apetalous flowers, and stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact.
  2. noun Any of various hairy, stinging, or prickly plants.
  3. transitive verb To sting with or as if with a nettle.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English netele; see ned- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English nettle, netle, from Anglo-Saxon netele, netle = Dutch netel = Middle Low German netele. nettele = Old High German nezzila, nezila, Middle High German nezzel, G. nessel = Danish nelde (for *nedle) = Swedish nässla (after G., the reg. form being *nätla); with diminutive suffix -el (-la), from a simple form seen in Old High German nazza, a nettle; root unknown; perhaps connected with net. The Old Prussian noatis, Lithuanian notere, Irish nenaid, nettle, appear to be unrelated. Skeat assumes an orig. initial h, and compares Greek κνίδη, a nettle, and English nit (Anglo-Saxon hnitu); but if there were an orig. initial h, it would appear in Old High German and Anglo-Saxon, as in other cases.
  2. from Middle English netlen; from nettle, n.
 

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