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twig

noun, n., a-decl., 55 occ.

Type: plant-part

Last Update: 31.08.2011 07:48

Old-English: tuig, twig, twy (?), twyg, tyg, trigu, twiga,

Latin (Machine generated): ARBUSTA, ASSERUM, CAULICULUS, FLAGELLA, FRONDES, IN RAMA, IN RAMIS, PALMA, PALMES, PALMITE, PALMITES, PROPAGINES, PROPAGINES UIRGULTA, PROPAGINIBUS, RAMI, RAMIS, RAMNOS, RAMOS, RAMUS, RAMUSCULIS, SURCULUS, UIMINA, UIMINA UIRGULE,

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References Last Update: 21.11.2022 18:35

Meaning Last Update: 28.10.2008 15:12

  • A: plant-part
    -, twig, Zweig
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Comment Last Update: 31.08.2011 07:42

  • Comment on (A): -, twig, Zweig

    The occurrences LB 38/3, 11/33, 64/34, 65/28 do not refer to trees or bushes; also cf. →tān. BT(SC) s.v. twig do not record any occurrence from LA nor HA.

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Occurrences Last Update: 08.11.2010 13:39

  • AldVGo, 3741 PROPAGINES UIRGULTA twiga SOBOLES bogas
  • AldVGo, 978 UIMINA UIRGULE tan ł twiga
  • AldVNa, 1,922 UIMINA tan, twiga
  • AldVNa, 8,61 RAMUSCULIS twy[1], boh
  • C21.1, Rit 68, 16 RAMI tviggo ł
  • C21.1, Rit 95, 5 RAMOS tviggo
  • ClQu, 115,5 PROPAGINIBUS twigo settende[2]
  • ClQu, 17 RAMUS twig
  • ClSt, A 597 ASSERUM[3] twiga
  • Cp, 1968(S 587) SURCULUS tuig, ouuaestm
  • D 46, Na 53, 2 FLAGELLA tuig
  • D 46, Na 53, 8 FLAGELLA tuig
  • HA, 156/2[4] napl twigu
  • HA, 160/11[5] dpl twigum
  • HA, 196/26[6] napl twigo
  • HA, 206/1[7] napl twigu
  • HA, 92/24[8] napl twigu
  • HlOl, C 607f CAULICULUS steola RAMUNCULUS twigu UEL MODICUM UAS UEL AQUALICUS UEL AQUA COLENS
  • Jn(Li), 12,13 RAMOS tuicgo
  • Jn(Li), 15,5[9] PALMITES þa tuiggo
  • Jn(Li), 15,6[10] PALMES tuigga
  • Jn(Li), Cont. S. 6, Z.12 RAMIS tuiggum
  • Jn(Ru), 12,13 RAMOS twigu
  • LA, 110/19[11] apl twiga
  • LB, 11/33 apl twigu
  • LB, 38/3 asg twig
  • LB, 57/21 apl twigu
  • LB, 64/34 apl twigu
  • LB, 65/28 apl twigu
  • LB, 65/5 apl twigu
  • Mk(Li), 11,8 FRONDES twiggo ł þa telgo
  • Mk(Li), 13,28 RAMUS telge ł twigge
  • Mk(Li), 4,32 RAMOS telgo ł twiggo
  • Mk(Ru), 11,8 FRONDES þa twigu
  • Mk(Ru), 4,32 RAMOS telgo ł twigo
  • Mt(Li), 13,32 IN RAMIS in tyggum
  • Mt(Li), 2,18[12] IN RAMA In tuigga ł
  • Mt(Li), 21,8 RAMOS tuiggo
  • Mt(Li), 24,32 RAMUS tuigge ł telge
  • Prud, 1034 PALMITE twige
  • Ps(A), 57,10 RAMNOS twigu[13]
  • Ps(A), 79,12 PALMITES twiou
  • Ps(B), 79,12 PALMITES twiou
  • Ps(C), 57, 10 RAMNOS twigu[14] ł hosa
  • Ps(D), 79,11 ARBUSTA twigu
  • Ps(F), 79,11 ARBUSTA twigu
  • Ps(F), 79,12 PROPAGINES þa twiga
  • Ps(F), 79,12 PROPAGINES þa twiga
  • Ps(G), 79,11 ARBUSTA twigu
  • Ps(G), 91,13 PALMA twyg
  • Ps(H), 79,11 ARBUSTA twigu
  • Ps(I), 79,11 ARBUSTA þyþelas ł twygu
  • Ps(J), 79,11 ARBUSTA trigu[15]
  • Ps(J), 79,12 PROPAGINES telgra þa twiga
  • Ps(M), 79,11 ARBUSTA twigu
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Research Literature

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AldVNa: Napier, Arthur Sampson. Old English Glosses. Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series. 11. Reprint of Oxford, Clarendon Press 1900. Hildesheim: Olms, 1969.
BTC: Campbell, Alistair (ed.). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Revised and Enlarged Addenda to the Supplement by T. N. Toller. London: Oxford University Press, 1972.
BTS: Toller, Thomas Northcote. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Nachdruck der Ausgabe von: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
BT: Bosworth, Joseph. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Ed. by Thomas Northcote Toller. Reprint 1973. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882.
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.
ClH: Clark Hall, John Richard. A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. 4th ed. MART 14. Cambridge: University Press, 1960.
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.
HA: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Herbarium Apuleii Platonici." 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. 1. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 1-325.
Hl: Oliphant, Robert Thompson. The Harley Latin-Old English Glossary. Edited from British Museum MS Harley 3376, Janua Linguarum, Series Practica XX. The Hague: Mouton, 1966.
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: 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.
Li, Ru (= Mt, Mk, Lk, Jn): Skeat, Walter William. The Four Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian, and Old Mercian Versions. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1871.
Prud: Meritt, Herbert Dean. The Old English Prudentius Glosses at Boulogne-sur-Mer. Stanford studies in language and literature ; 16. Stanford: AMS P., 1967.
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Ps (B): Brenner, Eduard. Der altenglische Junius-Psalter: Anglistische Forschungen 23. Heidelberg: Winter, 1908.
Ps (D), PsCa (D): Roeder, Fritz. Der altenglische Regius-Psalter. Studien zur englischen Philo­logie. 18. Repr. d. Ausg. Halle an d. Saale 1904. Walluf b. Wiesbaden: Sändig, 1904.
Ps (F): Kimmens, Andrew. An Edition of British Museum MS Stow 2: The Stowe Psalter. Diss Princeton U. 1969.
Ps (G), PsCa (G): Rosier, James L. (ed.). The Vitellus Psalter. Cornell Studies in English. 42. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1962.
Ps (H): Campbell, A. P. (ed.). The Tiberius Psalter. Ottawa Medieval Texts and Studies. 2. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1974.
PS (I), PsCa (I): Lindelöf, Uno Lorenz. Der Lambeth-Psalter. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 35/i and 43/iii. 2 vols.. Helsinki: 1909.
PS (J): MS London, British Library, Arundel 60.
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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.
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[1]:

N.: "R. twygum."

[2]:

Quinn suggests Ald. 257,12 (PROPAGINES EVANGELICAE VITIS CREDENTIUM SCROBIBUS PASTINANTEM) as possible model and notes "The gloss renders PROPAGINES [...] PASTINANTEM."

[3]:

To ECCLUS. 29,29: MELIOR EST VICTUS PAUPERIS SUB TEGMINE ASSERUM. ASSER = "pole, bar, board; Stange, Latte, Brett".

[4]:

MS H twiga; cont.: hyre [=hymele] twigu beoþ swylce swinen byrst; Hunger (1935,142): HABET RAMULOS QUASI SETA PORCINA.

[5]:

MS H twigan; cont.: Sume eac sæcgeaþ ƀ heo [=brune-wyrt] stelan mid twigum hysopan gelicne hæbbe; cf. the note on this occurrence s.v. hysope.

[6]:

Cont.: genim þysse ylcan wyrte [=gearwe] twigo; recipe not in the L text.

[7]:

MS H twiga; cont.: genim þysse ylcan wyrte [=dweorge dwosle] twigu; Hunger (1935,153): RAMULOS.

[8]:

MS H: twiga; with a gloss bowes; cont.: genim þa ylcan wyrte [=æscþrote] twigu; Hunger (1935,130): RAMULOS.

[9]:

Jn(Ru): þa palmtwigo.

[10]:

Jn(Ru): palmtwigo.

[11]:

Cont.: weliges twiga.

[12]:

The name was confused with RAMO. Mt(Ru): IN HEANISSE. RAMA is hebrew and means ", the height, die Höhe".

[13]:

The lemma was confused with RAMOS.

[14]:

The lemma was confused with RAMOS.

[15]:

N.: "Buchstabenverwechslung r statt w".