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Frangula_alnus

spracen

noun, n., a-decl., 4 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 23.08.2011 12:02

Meaning Last Update: 07.09.2010 10:40

  • A: plant: native
    Frangula alnus Mill., alder buckthorn, Gewöhnlicher Faulbaum
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Comment Last Update: 23.08.2011 12:01

  • Comment on (A): Frangula alnus Mill., alder buckthorn, Gewöhnlicher Faulbaum

    Cf. Marzell (2000,2,474): "Die folgenden N.n., die fast ganz auf das Nd. beschränkt sind, gehören alle zur Sippe sprock 'zerbrechlich, brüchig, spröde, mürbe'[1] […] Spröcker […] Sprecken […] Vgl. dän. (Nschleswig) spræn, spren, (Angeln) sprægen, spræken."

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Occurrences Last Update: 11.11.2010 06:47

  • ClQu, 39,2[2] APELETUM spracen
  • ClSt, A 490 APELETUM spracen
  • LB, 18/31 asg spracen
  • LB, 20/42 asg spracen
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Image Last Update: 23.08.2011 12:02

Frangula alnus Mill., alder buckthorn, Gewöhnlicher Faulbaum
Frangula_alnus

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

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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.
ClQu: Quinn, John Joseph. The Minor Latin-Old English Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Diss Stanford U. 1956.
ClSt: Stryker, William Garlington. The Latin-Old English Glossary in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Unpubl. diss. Stanford Univ.: 1952.
Ep: Brown, Alan Kelsey. The Epinal Glossary edited with Critical Commentary of the Vocabulary. Vol. I: Edition. Vol. II: Commentary. Diss., Stanford University. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1969.
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.
WW, Prosp, Br: Wright, Thomas. Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies. 2nd ed. by Richard Paul Wülcker. Reprint of the 1884 ed. published by Trübner, London. Vol. 1: Vocabularies. Vol. 2: Indices. New York: Gordon, 1976.
Deegan, Marilyn. A Critical Edition of MS. B.L. Royal 12.D.XVII: Bald's 'Leechbook'. Diss. Univ. of Manchester. 1988.
Hankins, Freda Richards. Bald's 'Leechbook' Reconsidered. Diss. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1993.
Lendinara, Patrizia. "The Glossaries in London, BL, Cotton Cleopatra A. iii." In: _Mittelalterliche volkssprachige Glossen: Internationale Fachkonferenz des Zentrums für Mittelalterstudien der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg 2. bis 4. August 1999._ Ed. Rolf Bergmann, Elvira Glaser, and Claudine Moulin-Fankhänel. Heidelberg: Winter, 2001. 189-215.
MS London, British Library, Royal 12 D.xvii.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
Rusche, Philip Guthrie. The Cleopatra Glossaries. Diss. Yale Univ. Yale University, 1996.
Voss, Manfred. "Strykers Edition des alphabetischen Cleopatraglossars: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 13:2 (1988): 123-138.
Voss, Manfred. "Quinns Edition der kleineren Cleopatraglossare: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 14:2 (1989): 127-139.
Wright, Cyril E. (ed.). Bald's Leechbook. Early English manuscripts in facsimile. 5. Kopenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1955.
[1]:

Because of the brittle wood which crackles when broken or burned.

[2]:

According to Quinn the L lemma is a corrupted ALNETUM "alder-wood, Erlengehölz"; he refers to Cp 128 ALNETA alerholt.