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brēost-gyrd

noun, f., a-decl., 3 occ.

Type: plant-related

Last Update: 21.04.2011 16:20

Old-English: breostgyrda, breostgyrde,

Latin (Machine generated): SCEPTRIN& UIRGĘ, SCEPTRINE UIRGE .I. UIMINIBUS, SCEPTRINĘ UIRGĘ SCEPTRINĘ UIRGE,

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Reference Last Update: 18.10.2022 18:22

Meaning Last Update: 22.04.2009 11:21

  • A: plant-related
    ? -, staff used by some member of the clergy, Stab, von einem Mitglied des Klerus verwendeter ~
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Comment Last Update: 07.03.2012 19:16

  • Comment on (A): ? -, staff used by some member of the clergy, Stab, von einem Mitglied des Klerus verwendeter ~

    Translation in the DOE: "sceptre or wand of authority, literally ‘breast-rod’".

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Occurrences Last Update: 18.05.2009 06:22

  • AldVGo, 3196 SCEPTRINĘ UIRGĘ SCEPTRINĘ UIRGE breostgyrde
  • AldVNa, 1,3303 SCEPTRIN& UIRGĘ tænene breostgyrde
  • AldVNa, 2,188 SCEPTRINE UIRGE .I. UIMINIBUS breostgyrda
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Research Literature

AldVGo: Goossens, Louis. The Old English Glosses of 'MS. Brussels, Royal Library 1650'. (Aldhelm's De Laudibus Virginitatis) Edited with an introduction, notes and indexes. Klasse der Letteren. Verhandelingen. 36,74. Brussels: Paleis der Academien, 1974.
AldVNa: Napier, Arthur Sampson. Old English Glosses. Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series. 11. Reprint of Oxford, Clarendon Press 1900. Hildesheim: Olms, 1969.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
DOE: Cameron, Angus, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette di Paolo Healey, et al. (eds.). Dictionary of Old English (A to G). CD-Rom. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for the Dictionary of Old English Project, 2008.
MS London, British Library, Royal 6 A.vi..
MS Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, 1650.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Digby 146.