printwir-þorn (?)
noun,
f.,
,
hapax legomenon
Last Update: 03.10.2011 10:36
Meaning Last Update: 18.06.2008 11:40
-
A:
-, unsolved, ungeklärt
Comment Last Update: 24.01.2011 09:03
-
Comment on (A): -, unsolved, ungeklärt
Occurrence Last Update: 03.10.2011 10:34
|
|
|
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.
ClQu:
Quinn, John Joseph.
The Minor Latin-Old English Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Diss Stanford U. 1956.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Bodley 730.
[1]:
It would fit the frequently corrupted glosses by this glossator.
Is this a plant name at all? Most likely, the lemma is not related to þorn, but a corrupted worhana[1] ‚capercaillie, Auerhahn’. Cf. the respective gloss in OlQu 16,16: FUSIANUS worhana.