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ā-cumba

noun, m., n-decl., 19 occ.

Type: plant-product

Last Update: 06.07.2009 10:30

Old-English: acuma, acumba, acmb, æcemba, æcumba, æcumbe, ecambe, ācumbe, ?ācumb, acuman, acumban, æcemban,

Latin (Machine generated): NAPTARUM, PUTAMEN, PUTAMINA, PUTAMINE, STUPPA, SUPPA, SUPPARUM, SUPPEA,

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Meaning Last Update: 19.11.2008 09:44

  • A: plant-product
    -, oakum, Werg
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Comment Last Update: 21.03.2011 11:21

  • Comment on (A): -, oakum, Werg

    LB: Deegan (1988,252) notes Cockayne's suggestion that the OE lemma denotes the ashes of burnt oakum (referring to Pliny, Hist.nat. 19.21).

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Occurrences Last Update: 04.05.2009 19:20

  • AldVGo, 3188 PUTAMINA acuman
  • AldVGo, 3188 PUTAMINA æcumba
  • AldVGo, 3616 PUTAMEN acumba
  • AldVGo, 3616 PUTAMINE of æfredan, acumban
  • AldVNa, 1,3293 PUTAMINA acumba
  • AldVNa, 1,3728 PUTAMINE of æfredan, acumban
  • AldVNa, 2,187 PUTAMINA acuman
  • AntK, 156,5 STUPPA æcumbe
  • ClQu, 133,14 SUPPARUM[1] æcemban
  • ClQu, 199,14 SUPPEA acumba
  • ClSt, N 11 NAPTARUM heordena, æbreda, acumba[2]
  • Cp, 1951(S 556) SUPPA[3] ecambe
  • LB, 25/13 asg acumban
  • LB, 37/15 nsg acumba
  • LB, 80/12 nsg acumba
  • LB, 80/37 nsg acumba
  • LB, Lch II(1), (B21.2.1.1.2) [0033 (1.15.3)] asg acumban
  • PD, 45/10[4] asg acuma
  • Prud, 247 STUPPA acuma[5]
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Research Literature

AldVGo: Goossens, Louis. The Old English Glosses of 'MS. Brussels, Royal Library 1650'. (Aldhelm's De Laudibus Virginitatis) Edited with an introduction, notes and indexes. Klasse der Letteren. Verhandelingen. 36,74. Brussels: Paleis der Academien, 1974.
AldVNa: Napier, Arthur Sampson. Old English Glosses. Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series. 11. Reprint of Oxford, Clarendon Press 1900. Hildesheim: Olms, 1969.
AntK: Kindschi, Lowell. The Latin-Old English Glossaries in Planton-Moretus Manuscript 43 and British Museum Manuscript Additional 32,246. Unpubl. diss. Stanford University: 1955.
BW I: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
BW II: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
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.
ClSt: Stryker, William Garlington. The Latin-Old English Glossary in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Unpubl. diss. Stanford Univ.: 1952.
Cp: Hessels, John Henry. An Eighth-Century Latin Anglo-Saxon Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1890.
Cp: Lindsay, Wallace Martin. The Corpus Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1921.
Cp: Wynn, J. B. An Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Corpus Glosses. Unpubl. Diss. Oxford: 1961.
DOE: Cameron, Angus, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette di Paolo Healey, et al. (eds.). Dictionary of Old English (A to G). CD-Rom. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for the Dictionary of Old English Project, 2008.
LB: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Leech Book." In: Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Sience in this Country before the Norman Conquest. Vol. 2. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Longman [et. al.], 1961. 1-360.
LB: Leonhardi, Günther. Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
PD: Löweneck, Max (ed.). Peri Didaxeon. Erlanger Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 12. Erlangen: Junge, 1896.
Prud: Meritt, Herbert Dean. The Old English Prudentius Glosses at Boulogne-sur-Mer. Stanford studies in language and literature ; 16. Stanford: AMS P., 1967.
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.
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Peri Didaxeon." In: Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Sience in this Country before the Norman Conquest. Vol. 3. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 82-143.
Deegan, Marilyn. A Critical Edition of MS. B.L. Royal 12.D.XVII: Bald's 'Leechbook'. Diss. Univ. of Manchester. 1988.
Hankins, Freda Richards. Bald's 'Leechbook' Reconsidered. Diss. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1993.
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, Royal 12 D.xvii.
MS London, British Library, Royal 6 A.vi..
MS Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, 1650.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Digby 146.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliotheque Municipale, 189.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.
MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
Rusche, Philip Guthrie. The Cleopatra Glossaries. Diss. Yale Univ. Yale University, 1996.
Sanborn, Linda (ed.). An Edition of British Library MS. Harley 6258B: Peri Didaxeon. Diss. Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 1983.
Voss, Manfred. "Strykers Edition des alphabetischen Cleopatraglossars: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 13:2 (1988): 123-138.
Voss, Manfred. "Quinns Edition der kleineren Cleopatraglossare: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 14:2 (1989): 127-139.
Wright, Cyril E. (ed.). Bald's Leechbook. Early English manuscripts in facsimile. 5. Kopenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1955.
[1]:

L. STUP-, also cf. Rusche (1996,710).

[2]:

Cf. DOE, s.v.: acumba may have been intended as a gloss for heordena "hards" or æbreda "hards, tow".

[3]:

L. STUP-

[4]:

L text (Löweneck 1896,44/7): STUPPA ("Werg").

[5]:

The MS has acxmb. N.: "Read acumb or acuma."