scear-bēam

noun, m., , hapax legomenon

Type: plant-related

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Reference Last Update: 26.12.2022 05:43

Meaning Last Update: 08.06.2009 08:21

  • A: plant-related
    ? -, wood to which the ploughshare is fixed, Holz, an dem die Pflugschar befestigt ist
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Comment Last Update: 12.08.2011 12:53

  • Comment on (A): ? -, wood to which the ploughshare is fixed, Holz, an dem die Pflugschar befestigt ist

    Identification according to BT and CH; it is the lit. translation of the the OE compound; the L lemma is not clear.

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Occurrence Last Update: 30.09.2010 11:08

  • HlOl, B 508 BRIGACUS scearbeam
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Research Literature

BT: Bosworth, Joseph. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Ed. by Thomas Northcote Toller. Reprint 1973. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
ClH: Clark Hall, John Richard. A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. 4th ed. MART 14. Cambridge: University Press, 1960.
Hl: Oliphant, Robert Thompson. The Harley Latin-Old English Glossary. Edited from British Museum MS Harley 3376, Janua Linguarum, Series Practica XX. The Hague: Mouton, 1966.
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.
MS London, British Library, Harley 3376.