waru

noun, f., , hapax legomenon

Type: plant-product

Last Update: 16.09.2011 09:39

Old-English: uuarre,

Latin (Machine generated): LEGUMINE,

↑ top

Meaning Last Update: 29.10.2008 19:34

  • A: plant-product
    ? -, field-produce, Bodenprodukt
↑ top

Comment Last Update: 29.11.2010 11:52

  • Comment on (A): ? -, field-produce, Bodenprodukt

    Cf. Meritt's note: "I take the gloss as equivalent to ware from waru here in the sense of 'field produce.' NED gives as meanings for ware 'field produce', 'crops','vegetables'."

↑ top

Occurrence Last Update: 04.02.2009 12:53

  • C 94.4, Prud, Meritt 27, 2 LEGUMINE uuarre
↑ top

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.
Meritt, Herbert Dean. Old English Glosses. MLA General Series.16. Repr. New York: 1971.
MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 223.