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sumer-lida

noun, f., a-decl., hapax legomenon

Type: plant

Last Update: 25.08.2011 07:32

Meaning Last Update: 01.12.2008 07:08

  • A: plant
    -, shoot, Schößling
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Comment Last Update: 25.08.2011 07:25

  • Comment on (A): -, shoot, Schößling

    The gloss belongs to Is. 17,5,5: MALLEOLUS EST NOVELLUS PALMES INNATUS PRIORIS ANNI FLAGELLO, COGNOMINATUSQUE [...] QUOD [...] MALLEI SPECIEM PRAEBET. Also cf. Klotz (1879, s.v.): "'Schößling', 'Setzling in Hammergestalt'. The original gloss must have been sumerloda (cf. OHG sumarlota 'shoot, Schößling')[1], which was then transformed into sumerlida 'summer army, Sommerheer' (cf. ClH, s.v.). I cannot support Meritt's (1954,114) suggestion that an emendation from -lida to -loda is unnecessary because "the verb lideþ at Paris Psalter 91,11 [is] in a context[2] concerning the growth of trees". Līdeþ (with i-umlaut; cf. Sievers-Brunner 1965,§107) is related to the strong verb lēodan 'grow, wachsen' (cf. ClH, s.v. līdeþ) and therefore only a form -lode (from the zero-grade stem with a-umlaut) is possible.

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Occurrence Last Update: 24.11.2010 06:27
  • ClSt, M 367 MALLEOLUS sumerlida
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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.
ClSt: Stryker, William Garlington. The Latin-Old English Glossary in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Unpubl. diss. Stanford Univ.: 1952.
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.
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, 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.
[1]:

First noted by Sievers (1891,330).

[2]:

Ps. 91,13: IUSTUS UT PALMA FLOREBIT ET SICUT CEDRUS LIBANI MULTIPLICABITUR (Weber 1953); Paris Psalter (Krapp 1970): Se soþfæsta [...] swa Libanes beorh lideþ and groweþ.