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Origanum_majorana

wurmille

noun, f., n-decl., 10 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 10.10.2011 08:31

Old-English: wurmille, wyrmelle, uurmillae, uurmillæ, wurmele, wurmelle, wurmillæ, wyrmella,

Latin (Machine generated): OMAGNUM, OMGANUM, ORIGANUM .I.,

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Meanings Last Update: 04.03.2011 11:04

  • B: plant: foreign
    Majorana hortensis Moench, marjoram, Majoran
  • A: plant: native
    Origanum vulgare L., marjoram, Gewöhnlicher Dost
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Comment Last Update: 10.10.2011 08:29

  • Comment on (B): Majorana hortensis Moench, marjoram, Majoran

    Cf. the notes on Laud 1089 and Dur 260. Pettit (2001,2,XLIII,180) doubts gender and declination and that it is a plant name at all: he suggests it should be understood as 'worm-meal'; agianst Grattan / Singer's line of reasoning he interprets it as 'powdered worms'.

    Etymology: Grattan / Singer (1952,116,n.7) suggest a connection to L VERMICULUS ‚little worm, kleiner Wurm' without further commenting on it.

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Occurrences Last Update: 04.02.2009 12:49

  • AntK, 119,5[1] ORIGANUM .I. wurmelle
  • ClQu, 41,6 OMAGNUM[2] wyrmella
  • ClSt, O 111 OMGANUM[3] wurmille
  • ClSt, O 201 ORIGANUM .I. wurmillæ
  • Cp, 1465(O 224) ORIGANUM .I. wurmille
  • D 11, f.12r, col.2 OMGANUM[4] wurmille
  • Ep, 691 ORIGANUM .I. uurmillae
  • Erf, 691 ORIGANUM .I. uurmillæ
  • LA, 116/8[5] asg wyrmel[lan]
  • Laud, 1089 ORIGANUM .I. organe UEL wurmele .I. PULEGIUM[6]
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Etymology Last Update: 10.10.2011 08:31

  • Etymology: Etymology-Comment:
  • Word-Formation:
  • Word-Formation-Comment:
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Images Last Update: 10.10.2011 08:31

Origanum vulgare L., marjoram, Gewöhnlicher Dost
Origanum_vulgare_bd4_tafel_054

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.

Majorana hortensis Moench, marjoram, Majoran
Origanum_majorana

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

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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 II: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
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.
LA, Lor: Grattan, John Henry Grafton, and Charles Singer. Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1952.
Laud: Stracke, J. Richard (ed.). The Laud Herbal Glossary. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.
LA: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "[Lacnunga] Recipies." 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. 3. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 2-81.
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.
Grein, Christian-Wilhelm-Michael (ed.). Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie. Göttingen: Wigand, 1864.
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.
Lindsay, Wallace Martin. Corpus, Épinal, Erfurt and Leyden Glossaries. Publications of the Philological Society VIII. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
Meritt, Herbert Dean. "Old English Glosses, Mostly Dry Point." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 60 (1961): 441-450.
MS London, British Library, Harley 585.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.
MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144.
MS Epinal, Bibliotheque Municipale, 72.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Otho E.i.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Laud Misc. 567.
MS Erfurt, Wissenschaftliche Allgemeinbibliothek, Amplonianus F.42.
Pettit, Edward, (ed. and trans.). Anglo-Saxon Remedies, Charms and Prayers from British Library MS Harley 585: the 'Lacnunga'. Vol. I: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Appendices. Vol. II: Commentary and Bibliography. Mellen Critical Editions and Translations. 6A and 6B. Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Mellen, 2001.
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.
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Voss, Manfred. "Strykers Edition des alphabetischen Cleopatraglossars: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 13:2 (1988): 123-138.
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[1]:

N.: "J, warmelle."

[2]:

Leohnhardi: ORIGANUM. (Also: Rusche 1996, 681: "Read ORIGANUM.")

[3]:

Leonhardi: ORIGANUM (Also Rusche 1996, 669).

[4]:

Leonhardi: ORIGANUM.

[5]:

So the MS; Cockayne and Leonhardi: wyrmelc; on details cf. Grattan / Singer (1951,116,n.7).

[6]:

PULEGIA MAIOR = syn. of ORIGANUM.