Artemisia-abrotanum

wǣlisc

noun, , , 2 occ.

Type: plant

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Meaning Last Update: 23.11.2010 10:55

  • A: plant: foreign
    ? Artemisia abrotanum L., southernwood, Eberraute
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Comment Last Update: 23.11.2010 11:19

  • Comment on (A): ? Artemisia abrotanum L., southernwood, Eberraute

    Probably a fragmentary wǣlisc wudu, ARTEMISIA ABROTANUM L. (cf. →sūþerne-wudu). Also cf. Stryker's note: "Read ABROTANUM. This is a plant name; the gloss means 'foreign'". BT (s.v. wilisc) refer to sūþerne. Rusche (1996, 669) adds: "The lemma is usually glossed subernewudu."

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Occurrences Last Update: 04.02.2009 12:49

  • ClSt, O 217 OPRATANUM[1] wælisc
  • D 11, f.12v, col.3 OPRATANUM wælisc
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Image Last Update: 31.08.2011 11:39

? Artemisia abrotanum L., southernwood, Eberraute

Artemisia-abrotanum

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: →reference-information

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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.
ClSt: Stryker, William Garlington. The Latin-Old English Glossary in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Unpubl. diss. Stanford Univ.: 1952.
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.
Meritt, Herbert Dean. "Old English Glosses, Mostly Dry Point." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 60 (1961): 441-450.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Otho E.i.
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.
Voss, Manfred. "Altenglische Glossen aus MS Brit. Library, Cotton Otho E.i." AAA 22:2 (1996): 179-203.
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Rusche (1996, 669): "Read ABROTANUM."