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sun-dēaw

noun, , , 2 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 25.08.2011 10:03

Old-English: sundeav, sundeaw,

Latin (Machine generated): ROSMARINA, ROSMARINUS,

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Meaning Last Update: 20.09.2010 10:19

  • A: plant: foreign
    Rosmarinus officinalis L., rosemary, Rosmarin
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Comment Last Update: 25.08.2011 09:59

  • Comment on (A): Rosmarinus officinalis L., rosemary, Rosmarin

    We second BT's suggestion (cf. their entry sund-dēw.) that the OE plant name is a literal translation of L ROS MARINUS 'sea dew, Meerestau'; Marzell (2000,2,168) argues along the same line. ModE sundew[1] (first recorded 1578, cf. OED) is - like ML ROS SOLIS[2] - most probably analogue to NHG Sonnentau, which itself could be a reinterpredation of NHG Sindau[3] 'Immertau' (related to sin- cf. s.vv. →sin-grēne, →sin-fulle; cf. Marz 2000,2,168). The record "sunddēaw, ? read sunndēaw, see OED s.v. sundew" in BTC has to be deleted, especially because the OED does not claim any connection of OE sun-dēaw and ModE sundew.

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Occurrences Last Update: 24.11.2010 06:41

  • Br,WW, 301,7 ROSMARINA sundeaw
  • Dur, 290 ROSMARINUS sundeav UEL bothen UEL feldmedere
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Image Last Update: 25.08.2011 10:03

Rosmarinus officinalis L., rosemary, Rosmarin

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Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: →reference-information

Thomé, Otto Wilhelm. Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. In 4 Mappen ; 531 Tafeln in naturgetreuen Farben mit 668 Pflanzenarten. Leipzip: Teubner, 1938.

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Research Literature

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.
Dur: Lindheim, B. von. Das Durhamer Pflanzenglossar. Beiträge zur englischen Philologie. 35. Bochum-Langendreer: Pöppinghaus, 1941.
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 Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, 1828-30.
MS Durham, Cathedral, Hunter 100.
[1]:

Drosera rotundifolia L., round leaved sundeaw, Rundblattriger Sonnentau.

[2]:

We cannot find any record before 1587; Diefenbach"s first record is from 1694.

[3]:

Equally to be corrected: BT, s.v. sund-dēaw "Sundew remains as a name for drosera rotundifolia".