ramson

• ramps, ramsh (Scotland)

Back-formation from ramsons; compare Middle English ramsyn (originally plural, taken as singular); Old English hramesan, plural of hramsa (“onion, broad-leafed garlic”), from Proto-Germanic *hramusô (“onion, leek”), from Proto-Indo-European *kermus-, *kremus- (“wild garlic”). Cognate with Scots ramps (“wild garlic”), Danish rams (“ramson”), Swedish ramslök (“wild garlic”). See buckrams.

ramson (plural ramsons)

1. A plant, Allium ursinum, a wild relative of chives and garlic.

• (Allium ursinum): buckram, wild garlic

• ramp

• Armons, Manors, Marons, Ransom, Romans, Rosman, manors, morans, mornas, normas, ransom, sarmon