printwæter-bōh
noun,
m.,
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hapax legomenon
Type: plant-part
Last Update: 16.09.2011 08:35
Meaning Last Update: 29.10.2008 19:29
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A: plant-part
-, sucker, Schößling
Comment Last Update: 16.09.2011 08:35
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Comment on (A): -, sucker, Schößling
Occurrence Last Update: 06.03.2008 14:19
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Research Literature
AntK:
Kindschi, Lowell.
The Latin-Old English Glossaries in Planton-Moretus Manuscript 43 and British Museum Manuscript Additional 32,246. Unpubl. diss. Stanford University: 1955.
BW III:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.
The gloss belongs to Is. 17,6,17: SURCULI A PRAECISIONE SERRAE NUNCUPATI. Cf. Meritt (1954,118): "the gloss is not directly influenced by Isidore's statement that SURCULI are so called from the cutting of the saw. Indirectly, however, the information that SURCULI get their name from being cut off with a saw, may have led a glossator to think of suckers, which have long been called watershoots and waterboughs, e.g., yf water bowes and super-fluyte ben pared of, the tree bereth the beter and more fruyte [OED, s.v. waterbouoh, 1398]". Meritt's interpretation 'superfluous shoots' is supported by the gloss AntK 144,15 (WW 149,27) GERMEN berende boh on the same folio.