Now dial. Forms: 1 tunhófe, 4 tunhowe, -hoo, 5–6 tunhove, 6 tune-, 7 tunnehoofe, 8– tunhoof. [f. TUN sb. + OE. hófe, HOVE sb.1: see ALE-HOOF.] The herb Ground Ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 344. Wyrc gode earsealfe … tunhofe nioþoweard, celeþonian leaf garleac, cropleac, do on win.
14[?]. Stockh. Med. MS., II. 406, in Anglia, XVIII. 317. Anoþer herbe is callyd soo [ground-ivy] Þat we callyn tunhoo.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 506/1. Tunhove, herbe (K. tunhowe, S. thomyhow, A. thonnhowe), edera terrestris.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, I. ccc. 705. In English ground Iuie, Alehoof,… Tunehoofe, and Cats foote.
1640. Parkinson, Theatr. Bot., V. xciii. 677. Gill creepe by the ground, Catsfoote, Haymaides, and Alehoofe most generally, or Tunnehoofe, because the countrey people use it much in their Ale.
1869. Gd. Words, March, Supp. 4. I used to gather in armfuls primroses,… and strong-scented tunhoof.
