þistel, sē onscunienda

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

Type: plant

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Reference Last Update: 22.11.2022 14:01

Meaning Last Update: 04.10.2010 10:52

  • A: plant: native
    -, thistle, Distel
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Comment Last Update: 29.08.2011 09:33

  • Comment on (A): -, thistle, Distel

    The name ' scrubby, struppige' thistel can be applied to a wide range of thistel species[1]; onscunienda simply translates (H)ORRENS; cf. ClSt E 300: EXORRUIT onscunode.

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Occurrence Last Update: 17.04.2008 09:05

  • ClSt, C 695 CARDUUS ORRENS se onscunienda þystel
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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.
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CARDUUS (H)ORPENS is not recorded anywhere else.