daffodil
- daffodil
- [16] Originally, this word was affodil,
and referred to a plant of the lily family, the
asphodel; it came from medieval Latin
affodillus, and the reason for the change from
asph- (or asf-, as it often was in medieval texts)
to aff- is probably that the s in medieval
manuscripts looked very like an f. The first
evidence of its use to refer to a ‘daffodil’, rather
than an ‘asphodel’, comes in the middle of the
16th century. It is not entirely clear where the
initial d came from, but the likeliest explanation
is that daffodil represents Dutch de affodil ‘the
daffodil’ (the Dutch were then as now leading
exponents of bulb cultivation).
The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins.
2013.
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daffodil — [16] Originally, this word was affodil, and referred to a plant of the lily family, the asphodel; it came from medieval Latin affodillus, and the reason for the change from asph (or asf , as it often was in medieval texts) to aff is probably that … Word origins
