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wyrm-wyrt
noun,
f.,
i-decl.,
4 occ.
Type: plant
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Reference Last Update: 22.11.2022 00:33
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Meaning Last Update: 04.03.2011 15:46
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A: plant: introduced Probably introduced (cf. Clapham 1962,444).
Sedum album L., white stonecrop, Weiße Fetthenne
Comment Last Update: 10.10.2011 09:13
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Comment on (A): Sedum album L., white stonecrop, Weiße Fetthenne
Occurrences Last Update: 13.03.2008 16:17
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Etymology Last Update: 10.10.2011 09:35
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Sedum album L., white stonecrop, Weiße Fetthenne |
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Botanical-Information: stylised plate Source: →reference-information
Fitch, Walter Hood.
Illustrations of the British Flora: London: Reeve, 1924.
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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.
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.
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.
MS London, British Library, Royal 12 D.xvii.
Olds, Barbara M..
The Anglo-Saxon Leechbook III: A Critical Edition and Translation. Diss. Univ. of Denver. 1985.
Wright, Cyril E. (ed.).
Bald's Leechbook. Early English manuscripts in facsimile. 5. Kopenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1955.
[1]:
I.e. "throw up, erbrechen".
[2]:
I.e. "horse worms, Würmer in Pferden".
Identification based on Cockayne (1961,II,411) and BT (s.v.), who refer to OHG wurmwurz, which glosses L AGAONE SUBTILLA, which is synonym with VERMICARIA (Bjorkman 1901,231). But cf. WW 712/35: HEC VERMICULARIS, stoncroppe. OE →stān-crop, which denotes Sedum acre L..
Etymology: lit. 'worm wort, Wurmwurz'; probably because of the plant's use against worms (but in the LB it is not used this way), also cf. Brodin (1950,140): "CRASSULA MINOR is an herbe þat men clepe stonore or stoncrop [...] it makyth a man to castyn[1] and it sleth wyrmus and trwnchonys.[2]"