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hare-hune, hwīt
noun,
f.,
n-decl.,
hapax legomenon
Type: plant
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Reference Last Update: 23.11.2022 09:43
Meaning Last Update: 07.06.2011 09:08
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A: plant: native
Marrubium vulgare L., white horehound, Gewöhnlicher Andorn
Comment Last Update: 03.11.2009 11:59
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Comment on (A): Marrubium vulgare L., white horehound, Gewöhnlicher Andorn
Occurrence Last Update: 03.11.2009 10:51
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Marrubium vulgare L., white horehound, Gewöhnlicher Andorn |
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Botanical-Information: stylised plate
Fitch, Walter Hood.
Illustrations of the British Flora: London: Reeve, 1924.
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Research Literature
Biggam, Carole P..
"Grey' in Old English: an Interdisciplinary Semantic Study. London: Runetree, 1998.
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.).
Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. 3 vols. with a New Introduction by Charles Singer. Rev. Ed. London: Holland Press, 1961.
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This is especially emphasised by the fact that the occurrences (also cf. s.v. hare-hune, read steallet) have to be dated very late (ca. 1050-1125). They are additions by several hands to the Herbarium Apuleii in MS London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C.iii.
Cf. Biggam (1998,170): sometime during the Anglo-Saxon period the unqualified term harhune became applied to more than one plant,[1] or the seafaring term hune was not understood anymore (also recorded in manuscript evidence), and the colour term har- was taken for hære 'hairy', which makes a qualifying colour term necessary (hwite).