printþy̅or-wyrt
noun,
f.,
i-decl.,
hapax legomenon
Last Update: 30.08.2011 08:56
Meaning Last Update: 05.04.2008 07:07
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A:
-, unsolved, ungeklärt
Comment Last Update: 30.08.2011 08:40
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Comment on (A): -, unsolved, ungeklärt
Research Literature
BW II:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
LA, Lor:
Grattan, John Henry Grafton, and Charles Singer.
Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1952.
LA:
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.).
"[Lacnunga] Recipies." 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. 2-81.
LB:
Leonhardi, Günther.
Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
Grein, Christian-Wilhelm-Michael (ed.).
Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie. Göttingen: Wigand, 1864.
Marzell, Heinrich.
Wörterbuch der deutschen Pflanzennamen. Mit Unterstützung der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Bearb. von Heinrich Marzell. Unter Mitw. von Wilhelm Wissmann. Köln: Parkland, 2000.
MS London, British Library, Harley 585.
Pettit, Edward, (ed. and trans.).
Anglo-Saxon Remedies, Charms and Prayers from British Library MS Harley 585: the 'Lacnunga'. Vol. I: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Appendices. Vol. II: Commentary and Bibliography. Mellen Critical Editions and Translations. 6A and 6B. Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Mellen, 2001.
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Cont.: Wyrc þeordrænc godne: genim [...] þyorwyrt; þyorwyrt is part of a list of 13 plant names. The recipe matches LB 99/19ff, which has (LB 99/20) þeorwyrt.
Not recorded in BT(SC); cf. BT, s.v. þēorwyrt. On the form þyorwyrt cf. Grattan / Singer (1952,212): "Ws. eo by breaking. There is in our text no trace of an eWS and Nhb. io, nor of Angl. smoothing. Whether þyorwyrt 158b is a late variant of this vowel or of long ēo is uncertain". The form ēo is supported by the context: þēordrænc. Cockayne's identification and his reference to G Dürrwurz, Inula conyza (→þēor-wyrt) is not valid as the name Dürrwurz was created artificially (cf. MarzeII 2000,II,1010).