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Myrica_gale_bd2_tafel_009

wīr

noun, m., , 8 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 03.10.2011 09:49

Old-English: uuir, uuyr, wir, wyir, wyr, wir-,

Latin (Machine generated): MARTUS, MARTUSMIRTUS, MYRTUS,

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References Last Update: 18.10.2022 22:25

Meaning Last Update: 24.01.2011 08:23

  • A: plant: native
    Myrica gale L., bog-myrtle, Moor-Gagelstrauch
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Comment Last Update: 03.10.2011 09:49

  • Comment on (A): Myrica gale L., bog-myrtle, Moor-Gagelstrauch

    L MYRTUS also denotes Myrtus communis L., common myrtle, Gewöhnliche Myrte but this plant was not known in the Germanic Middle Ages (cf. Hoops, Reallexikon 1911,3, s.v. Myrte): "auch das ags. wīr, wīrtrēow, das in Glossaren lat. MIRTUS übersetzt, muß einen einheimischen Baum oder Strauch bezeichnet haben, wie sein Auftreten in Flurnamen [...] zeigt."

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Occurrences Last Update: 03.10.2011 09:49

  • ClQu, 37,8 MYRTUS wyr
  • ClSt, M 132 MYRTUS wir, wirtreow
  • Cp, 1381 (M 381) MYRTUS uuir
  • D 25, f.145r, col.2,1 MARTUSMIRTUS wir
  • Ep, 637 MARTUS uuyr
  • Erf, 637 MYRTUS uuyr
  • LB, 22/17 nasg wir
  • LB, 27/11 nasg wir
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Image Last Update: 03.10.2011 09:49

Myrica gale L., bog-myrtle, Moor-Gagelstrauch
Myrica_gale_bd2_tafel_009

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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Research Literature

BW I: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
ClQu: Quinn, John Joseph. The Minor Latin-Old English Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Diss Stanford U. 1956.
ClSt: Stryker, William Garlington. The Latin-Old English Glossary in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Unpubl. diss. Stanford Univ.: 1952.
Cp: Hessels, John Henry. An Eighth-Century Latin Anglo-Saxon Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1890.
Cp: Lindsay, Wallace Martin. The Corpus Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1921.
Cp: Wynn, J. B. An Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Corpus Glosses. Unpubl. Diss. Oxford: 1961.
Ep, Erf: Pheifer, J.D. (ed.). Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
Ep: Brown, Alan Kelsey. The Epinal Glossary edited with Critical Commentary of the Vocabulary. Vol. I: Edition. Vol. II: Commentary. Diss., Stanford University. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1969.
LB: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Leech Book." In: Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Sience in this Country before the Norman Conquest. Vol. 2. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Longman [et. al.], 1961. 1-360.
LB: Leonhardi, Günther. Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
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.
Bischoff, Bernard, et al. (eds.).. The Épinal, Erfurt, Werden and Corpus Glossaries. Early English manuscripts in facsimile 22. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1988.
Deegan, Marilyn. A Critical Edition of MS. B.L. Royal 12.D.XVII: Bald's 'Leechbook'. Diss. Univ. of Manchester. 1988.
Hankins, Freda Richards. Bald's 'Leechbook' Reconsidered. Diss. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1993.
Hoops, Johannes. Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde. 4 Bände. Straßburg: Trübner, 1911.
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Lindsay, Wallace Martin. Corpus, Épinal, Erfurt and Leyden Glossaries. Publications of the Philological Society VIII. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
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Rusche, Philip Guthrie. The Cleopatra Glossaries. Diss. Yale Univ. Yale University, 1996.
Sauer, Hans. "Old English Plant-Names in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary: Etymology, Word-Formation and Semantics." In: _Words, Lexemes, Concepts - approaches to the lexicon. Studies in honour of Leonhard Lipka._ Ed. Wolfgang Falkner and Hans-Jörg Schmidt. Tübingen: Narr, 1999. 23-38.
Storms, Godfrid (ed.). Anglo-Saxon Magic. Reprint of the 1948 ed. published by M. Nijhoff, The Hague. Norwood, Pa: Norwood Editions, 1975.
Voss, Manfred. "Strykers Edition des alphabetischen Cleopatraglossars: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 13:2 (1988): 123-138.
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