printspīr
noun,
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,
2 occ.
Type: plant-part
Last Update: 23.08.2011 11:53
Meaning Last Update: 07.09.2010 10:00
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A: plant-part
-, spire, Rohr
Comment Last Update: 23.08.2011 11:52
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Comment on (A): -, spire, Rohr
Occurrences Last Update: 08.11.2010 06:44
Research Literature
BW I:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
BW III:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
LB:
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.).
"Leech Book." In: Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Sience in this Country before the Norman Conquest. Vol. 2. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Longman [et. al.], 1961. 1-360.
LB:
Leonhardi, Günther.
Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
Deegan, Marilyn.
A Critical Edition of MS. B.L. Royal 12.D.XVII: Bald's 'Leechbook'. Diss. Univ. of Manchester. 1988.
Meritt, Herbert Dean.
Old English Glosses. MLA General Series.16. Repr. New York: 1971.
MS London, British Library, Royal 12 D.xvii.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
Wright, Cyril E. (ed.).
Bald's Leechbook. Early English manuscripts in facsimile. 5. Kopenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1955.
[1]:
MLN 62,567.
[2]:
Cont: hindbergean leaf 7 hreodes spirreade hofan; spirreade erroneously is written in one word, with correctly applied punctuation the passage should read hindbergean leaf 7 hreodes spir, reade hofan.
Cf. Meritt's note: "The gloss spir seems to have been induced by a confusion of CARACTER with CARECTUM and of GRAMMA with GRAMINA, for spir is followed by ł GRAMINA." This explanation is more plausible than Meroney's guess "Can spir be connected with OE spor 'track'? A few lines later Priscian etymologizes LITERA as LEGENDI ITER"[1]