Many nights, though autumnal mists were spread around, I passed under an ilex - many times I have supped onarbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsy-like, on the ground[…]
1859, Ferna Vale,Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:
Ah, who is he,—on whom young men and maidens look with pitying eye? to whom the old man lifts his hat, and little children cease from their sports as he passes, and quietly slip the innocent daisy, or the sweet-scentedarbutus into his hand, which they have culled from the wide commons, where, they have been told, the good Sea-flower loved to stray.
Unknown. Lewis and Short (1879) suggests it is related toarbor(“tree”) (comparearbustus(“planted with trees, wooded”)), but Ernout and Meillet (1985) recognizes no etymology,[1] and Schrijver (1991) says it lacks a reliable etymology.[2]
^Ernout, Alfred,Meillet, Antoine (1985) “arbutus”, inDictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections ofJacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published2001, page43
^Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991)The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi,→ISBN, page33
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