printwind-ropa
noun,
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hapax legomenon
Last Update: 03.10.2011 08:14
Meaning Last Update: 05.07.2008 06:55
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Comment Last Update: 03.10.2011 08:14
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Comment on (A): -, unsolved, ungeklärt
Occurrence Last Update: 10.03.2008 07:50
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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.
Laud:
Stracke, J. Richard (ed.).
The Laud Herbal Glossary. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.
Hunt, Tony.
Plant Names of Mediaeval England. Cambridge: Brewer, 1989.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Laud Misc. 567.
Cf. Hunt (1989,93): "CRISPINA ?Gooseberry ? Ribes uva-crispa L." Hunt refers to Bierbaumer (1979, s.v.). Also cf. an attempt at an explanation in Stracke (1974,n.375).
Although native to EU and the BI the plant was not part of the medieval Materia Medica; Marzell (2000,3,1342), for example, only records popular names from the 16th century onwards.