stān-merce

noun, m., , 2 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 11.10.2011 08:47

Old-English: stānmerece,

Latin (Machine generated): PETROSILION, SIGSONTE,

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References Last Update: 26.12.2022 08:51

Meaning Last Update: 13.09.2010 08:57

  • A: plant: foreign Introduced in 1548 (cf. Stephens 2009)
    Petroselinum Hill, parsley, Petersilie
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Comment Last Update: 13.09.2010 08:59

  • Comment on (A): Petroselinum Hill, parsley, Petersilie

    Cf. Förster's note on the occurrence: "Petrosilion [...]= gr. πετροσέλινον 'stein-eppich' oder 'petersilie' [gr. σέλινον = APIUM = ae. merce , s.d] [...] Ae. stān-mercče ist in me. stanmarche (Prompt.Parv.) fortgesetzt, ist also wohl mehr als gelehrte Übersetzung."

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Occurrences Last Update: 15.11.2010 14:02

  • AntFö, 137,224 PETROSILION stanmerce
  • Br,WW, 299,27 SIGSONTE[1] stanmerce
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Research Literature

AntFö: Förster, Max. "Die altenglische Glossenhandschrift Plantinus 32 (Antwerpen) und Additional 32246 (London)." Anglia 41 (1917): 94-161.
Br: Logeman, Henri. "Zu Wright-Wülker I, 204-303." Archiv 85 (1890): 316-318.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
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.
Banham, Debby. The Knowledge and Uses of Food Plants in Anglo-Saxon England. Diss. Cambridge University. Index to Theses. 40. Cambridge: 1990.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.
MS Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, 1828-30.
Sauer, Hans. Patterns of loan-influence on the Medieval English plant names, with special reference to the influence of Greek. In: Foreign Influences on Medieval English, Eds. Jacek Fisiak, and Magdalana Bator. Studies in English medieval language and literature. 28. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2011. 55-76.
: Stephens, James M.. Parsley — Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) Nym. University of Florida. 2009. .
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Cf. s.v. sigsonte.