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Aconitum_napellus_bd2_tafel_097

þung

noun, m., a-decl., 26 occ.

Possible Types: plant-product, plant

Last Update: 30.08.2011 07:18

Old-English: pang, thung, þung,

Latin (Machine generated): ACONIT, ACONITA, ACONITO, BOTRATION, COXA, ELEBORUS, ELLEBORUS, MANDRAGINA, SOLE, TOXA, TOXI,

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References Last Update: 22.11.2022 15:08

Meanings Last Update: 29.08.2011 10:41

  • A: plant-product
    -, poison, Gift
  • B: plant: native
    Aconitum napellus L., monk's hood, Blauer Eisenhut
  • C: plant: foreign
    Veratrum album L., white veratrum, Weißer Germer
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Comment Last Update: 29.08.2011 10:49

  • Comment on (A): -, poison, Gift

    Cf. Hoops (1889,83f), who discusses þung in great detail as sample entry for his projected but never conducted dictionary of Old English plant names. Deegan (1988: 283) erroneously records 'false hellebore' for Bierbaumer (1975,135).

    Etymology: cf. Hoops (1889,84) and Pokorny (1989,I,1068, s.v. tank-).

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Occurrences Last Update: 03.12.2010 06:10

  • AntK, 117,10 ACONITA þung
  • Br,WW, 296,16 COXA[1] þung
  • Br,WW, 296,17 ACONITA þung
  • Br,WW, 299,17 TOXA þung
  • C 71.2, Meritt 73c, 8 SOLE[2] thunge
  • ClQu, 59,10 TOXI[3] pang
  • ClSt, E 25 ELLEBORUS wedeberge, þung
  • ClSt, M 384 MANDRAGINA[4] þung
  • Cp, 48(A 102) ACONITO[5] þungas
  • Cp, 755(E 120) ELEBORUS þung, woedeberge
  • Dur, 12 ACONITA thung
  • Dur, 135 COXA[6] thung
  • Dur, 148 ELLEBORUS vedeberige UEL thung
  • Dur, 64 BOTRATION clufthunge UEL thung
  • Ep, 23 ACONITA thungas
  • Erf, 23[7] ACONITA thungas
  • Laud, 1441 TOXA þung
  • Laud, 6 ACONIT þung
  • LB, 101/31 gsg þunges
  • LB, 22/9 dsg þunge
  • LB, 25/2[8] asg þung
  • LB, 46/13[9] asg þung
  • LB, 46/14[10] nsg þung
  • LB, 46/26 asg þone miclan þung
  • LB, 81/10 gsg þunges
  • LB, 98/32 asg þung
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Etymology Last Update: 30.08.2011 07:18

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Images Last Update: 30.08.2011 07:18

Aconitum napellus L., monk's hood, Blauer Eisenhut
Aconitum_napellus_bd2_tafel_097

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.

Veratrum album L., white veratrum, Weißer Germer
Veratrum_album_bd1_tafel_118

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

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.
Br: Logeman, Henri. "Zu Wright-Wülker I, 204-303." Archiv 85 (1890): 316-318.
BW I: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
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.
Dur: Lindheim, B. von. Das Durhamer Pflanzenglossar. Beiträge zur englischen Philologie. 35. Bochum-Langendreer: Pöppinghaus, 1941.
Ep, Erf: Pheifer, J.D. (ed.). Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
Ep: Brown, Alan Kelsey. The Epinal Glossary edited with Critical Commentary of the Vocabulary. Vol. I: Edition. Vol. II: Commentary. Diss., Stanford University. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1969.
Laud: Stracke, J. Richard (ed.). The Laud Herbal Glossary. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.
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.
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.
Bischoff, Bernard, et al. (eds.).. The Épinal, Erfurt, Werden and Corpus Glossaries. Early English manuscripts in facsimile 22. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1988.
Deegan, Marilyn. A Critical Edition of MS. B.L. Royal 12.D.XVII: Bald's 'Leechbook'. Diss. Univ. of Manchester. 1988.
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Hankins, Freda Richards. Bald's 'Leechbook' Reconsidered. Diss. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1993.
Hoops, Johannes. Über die altenglischen Pflanzennamen. Diss. Freiburg im Breisgau: 1889.
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.
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MS Oxford, Bodleian, Laud Misc. 567.
MS Erfurt, Wissenschaftliche Allgemeinbibliothek, Amplonianus F.42.
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Pokorny, Julius. Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2 Bde., 2. Auflage. Bern u.a.: Francke, 1989.
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[1]:

L. reads TOXA.

[2]:

Maybe a corrupted SOLANUM or SOLATA, Solanum nigrum L.

[3]:

N.: "Read TOXA or TOXICUM. As BTS suggests, the gloss seems to be an erroneous þung, "a poisonous plant"". Also cf. Sievers (1891,324) and Rusche (1996,688).

[4]:

N.: "Read MANDRAGORA".

[5]:

Wynn emends to ACONITA.

[6]:

L. reads TOXA.

[7]:

The lemma is not readable.

[8]:

L. reads þungompre; but we should read þung, ompre analog to 98/32 þung 7 ompran.

[9]:

Cf. note on LB, 46/14.

[10]:

Cont: Gif mon þung ete, aþege buteran 7 drince; se þung gewit on þa buteran. In this instance þung probably means "poison, Gift" rather than denoting a specific plant.