printhelde, grene
noun,
f.,
n-decl.,
2 occ.
Type: plant
Last Update: 09.06.2011 07:49
Meaning Last Update: 05.11.2009 12:05
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A: plant: native Several native species.
? Potentilla L, cinquefoil, a specie of ~, Fingerkraut, eine Art ~
Comment Last Update: 05.11.2009 12:16
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Comment on (A): ? Potentilla L, cinquefoil, a specie of ~, Fingerkraut, eine Art ~
Occurrences Last Update: 08.11.2010 13:16
Research Literature
BW II:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
MED:
Kurath, Hans and Sherman M. Kuhn.
Middle English Dictionary. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1952.
PD:
Löweneck, Max (ed.).
Peri Didaxeon. Erlanger Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 12. Erlangen: Junge, 1896.
Britten, James, and Robert Holland.
A Dictionary of English Plant-Names. London: Trübner, 1886.
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.).
"Peri Didaxeon." 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. 82-143.
Fischer, Hermann.
Mittelalterliche Pflanzenkunde. Geschichte der Wissenschaften. Geschichte der Botanik II. Nachdruck der Ausgabe 1929. München: 2001.
Sanborn, Linda (ed.).
An Edition of British Library MS. Harley 6258B: Peri Didaxeon. Diss. Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 1983.
[1]:
Helda probably for heldan; L text (Löweneck 1896,38/1f): COLLIGE HERBAM DOMAM, ID EST TANACETAM AGRESTEM.
[2]:
Cont.: gif nabbe grene helda; L text (Löweneck 1896,38/4): SI DOMA VIRIDIS DEFUERIT.
The occurrences are not recorded in BT(SC) but they are recorded in the MED, s.v. helde n.(3); the meaning of grene helde is not specifyed. If we do not assume an error made by the OE translator (cf. the respective notes to the occurrences) this meaning can only be held valid for the PD. Fischer (2001,280): "Potentilla anserina L., recta L. u. reptans L. [...] doma (Gloss.) [...] tanacetum agrestum (Brunsch.)". Cf. the ModE names of P. anserina (Britten / Holland 1886,601): Goose Tansy, Dog's Tansy.