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beg-bēam
noun,
m.,
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hapax legomenon
Type: plant
Last Update: 18.04.2011 08:47
Meanings Last Update: 10.06.2009 11:52
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A: plant: native
Morus nigra L., black mulberry, Schwarzer Maulbeerbaum -
B: plant: native
?? Rubus fruticosus L., bramble, Brombeere
Comments Last Update: 09.11.2011 09:16
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Comment on (A): Morus nigra L., black mulberry, Schwarzer Maulbeerbaum
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Comment on (B): ?? Rubus fruticosus L., bramble, Brombeere
This meaning is suggested by ClH and HEW, s.v. beg as sole meaning and by BT as additional meaning for the OE lemma. They all base this decision on the WS gospel, Luke 20,37 where beigebeam[2] translates RUBRUM (Skeat 1871,196). We consider this an erroneous translation that can be traced back to the ambiguous RUBUS of Is. 17,7,19: MORUS A GRAECIS VOCATA, QUAM LATINI RUBUM APPELLANT.
Occurrence Last Update: 10.06.2009 11:34
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Morus nigra L., black mulberry, Schwarzer Maulbeerbaum |
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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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?? Rubus fruticosus L., bramble, Brombeere |
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Botanical-Information: stylised plate Source: →reference-information
Fitch, Walter Hood.
Illustrations of the British Flora: London: Reeve, 1924.
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Research Literature
BT:
Bosworth, Joseph.
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Ed. by Thomas Northcote Toller. Reprint 1973. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882.
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.
ClSt:
Stryker, William Garlington.
The Latin-Old English Glossary in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Unpubl. diss. Stanford Univ.: 1952.
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.
HEW:
Holthausen, Ferdinand.
Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 3., unveränd. Aufl.. Heidelberg: Winter, 1974.
Is:
Isidorus Hispalensis.
Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Etymologiarum sive Originum Libri XX. Recogn. brevique adnot. crit. instruxit W. M. Lindsay. 1: Libros I - X continens. 2: Libros XI - XX continens. repr. 1911. (Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis) Oxonii: Typogr. Clarendoniano, 1966.
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.
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.
André, Jacques.
Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique. Paris: Société d'édition 'les belles lettres', 1985.
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.
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, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
Rusche, Philip Guthrie.
The Cleopatra Glossaries. Diss. Yale Univ. Yale University, 1996.
Voss, Manfred.
"Strykers Edition des alphabetischen Cleopatraglossars: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 13:2 (1988): 123-138.
[1]:
? MORETUM "Maulbeergetränk"; cf. Dief. s.v. MORETUM: "maulpertrangk".
[2]:
Cont.: forþam þe soðlice deade arisað. & Moyses ætywde wið anne beigbeam.
Cont.: MORARIUS begbeam UNDE MEROTA[1] DICTA, MORARIUS ETIAM CELSA UOCATUR, MORA HÆC COMMUNE NOMEN EST. MORARIUS = Morus nigra L. (cf. André, s.v.). Also cf. Marzell (2000,3,218), who notes on an old name for M. nigra, MORACELSI (=MORUS CELSA): "die hochwüchsige MORUS, im Gegensatz zu[m Namen] 'MORA BACCI' [...] der nur als niederer Strauch wachsenden Brombeere". This meaning is also supported by the literal translation of the OE plant name: 'berry tree' (cf. DOE, s.v.).