oemseten

noun, f., , hapax legomenon

Type: plant-related

Last Update: 21.07.2011 10:55

Old-English: œmseten, ymbseten,

Latin (Machine generated): AMTES,

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Meaning Last Update: 04.04.2010 08:20

  • A: plant-related
    -, vine, row of ~s, Wein, Reihe von ~stöcken
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Comment Last Update: 04.04.2010 08:30

  • Comment on (A): -, vine, row of ~s, Wein, Reihe von ~stöcken

    In BT only recorded s.v. ymbseten. Cf. Meritt (1954,188); on oem- for ymb- cf. Wynn (1961, § 65,3): "Beside regular ymb- there occurs the form oem- as in oemsetinne 161, oembeht 515, which is perhaps to be regarded as a weakened form of ymb-"; cf. Sievers-Brunner (1965,§ 102, A.3).

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Occurrence Last Update: 20.04.2010 09:44

  • Cp, 161(A 534) AMTES[1] oemsetinne wiingeardes
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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.
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.
Brunner, Karl. Altenglische Grammatik. Sammlung kurzer Grammatiken Germanischer Dialekte. A: Hauptreihe. Nr. 3, 3., neubearb. Aufl.. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1965.
Meritt, Herbert Dean. Fact and Lore about Old English words. Stanford studies in language and literature. 13. New York: AMS P., 1954.
MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144.
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Wynn emends to ANTES.