stemn

noun, , , 2 occ.

Type: plant-part

Last Update: 24.08.2011 09:35

Old-English: stem, stemn,

Latin (Machine generated): ROBORA, ROSA,

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Meaning Last Update: 28.10.2008 06:50

A: plant-part
-, stem of a tree, Baumstamm

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Occurrences Last Update: 16.11.2010 06:29

C 97.2, Sed, Meritt 28, 192 ROSA[1] stem

C 97.2, Sed, Meritt 28, 95 ROBORA[2] stemna

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Research Literature

BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.

Sed: Page, R.I.. "Anglo-Saxon Scratched Glosses in a Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Manuscript." In: _Otium et Negotium. Studies in Onomatology and Library Science Presented to Olof von Feilitzen._ Stockholm: , 1973. 209-215.

Meritt, Herbert Dean. Old English Glosses. MLA General Series.16. Repr. New York: 1971.

Migne, Jacques Paul. Patrologia Latina. Repr.. New Jersey: 1965.

MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 173.

[1]:

Cont. (MPL 19, 595,10): ET VELUT E SPINIS MOLLIS ROSA SURGIT ACUTIS. I cannot explain the erroneous gloss. In his index Meritt relates both glosses to stemn without any comment.

[2]:

Cont. (MPL 19, 566,5): FRONDEA BLANDITAE LAMBEBANT ROBORA FLAMMAE. Also cf. s.v. stofn.