poisonous Eurasian plant, mid-13c., said to be fromhen(n.) +bane(n.) but this may be folk etymology. Brewer says of it, "There is no such [Old English] word ashen-bana, hen murderer, and the notion of the seeds being fatal to poultry arose from misapprehension of the word." Ot...
poisonous Eurasian plant, mid-13c., said to be from hen (n.) + bane (n.) but this may be folk etymology...Brewer says of it, "There is no such [Old English] word as hen-bana, hen murderer, and the notion of the seeds being fatal... pulletyoung fowl" (late 13c. as a sur...
poisonous Eurasian plant, mid-13c., said to be fromhen(n.) +bane(n.) but this may be folk etymology. Brewer says of it, "There is no such [Old English] word ashen-bana, hen murderer, and the notion of the seeds being fatal to poultry arose from misapprehension of the word." Ot...