A plant name combining 'ash' and 'wort' (an Old English term for plant or herb), referring to a specific medicinal or cooking herb.
Compound of ash and wort (Old English wyrt, from Proto-Germanic *wurtiz). The '-wort' suffix was standard in English plant nomenclature, appearing in names like mugwort and figwort.
The '-wort' naming tradition is a linguistic fossil—it shows how ancient naming conventions persist in plant names like mugwort and liverwort, and each one originally described a specific use or feature!
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