Lepidium_sativum

tūn()

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

Type: plant

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References Last Update: 18.10.2022 16:26

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Meaning Last Update: 08.11.2010 08:35

  • A: plant: introduced Either introduced (by Romans or earlier) or foreign; Clapham (1962,139) labels the plant "introduced".
    Lepidium sativum L., garden-cress, Gartenkresse
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Comment Last Update: 08.11.2010 08:22

  • Comment on (A): Lepidium sativum L., garden-cress, Gartenkresse

    Probably for tūn-cærse: WW and Quinn suggest that the gloss is a corrupted tūncerse; cf. the fourth gloss NASTURTIUM leaccersan, tuncers. On the L lemma cf. s.v. →hwīt-lēac.

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Occurrence Last Update: 13.01.2011 14:58

  • ClQu, 39,12 ALBA CIPA [wite tun][1]
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Image Last Update: 30.08.2011 11:02

Lepidium sativum L., garden-cress, Gartenkresse

Lepidium_sativum

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

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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.
ClQu: Quinn, John Joseph. The Minor Latin-Old English Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Diss Stanford U. 1956.
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. "Quinns Edition der kleineren Cleopatraglossare: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 14:2 (1989): 127-139.
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N.: "The gloss, now completely obscured by a stain along the upper edge of the MS at this point, is supplied from WW. The gloss to the corresponding entry in Glossary XI is hwite leac."