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blosmian

verb, , , 8 occ.

Type: plant-related

Last Update: 21.04.2011 09:28

Old-English: blosmað, blosmæþ, blostmæt, blostmiað, blosmiæð, blostmedon, blostmodan, blostmiendan,

Latin (Machine generated): FLOREAT, FLOREBIT, FLOREBUNT, REFLORUIT,

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Reference Last Update: 19.10.2022 11:34

Meanings Last Update: 19.04.2011 16:13

  • B: plant-related
    -, flourish, florieren,
  • A: plant-related
    -, blossom, to ~, blühen
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Comments Last Update: 19.04.2011 16:14

  • Comment on (A): -, blossom, to ~, blühen

    Cf. the occurences Bede 4 (B9.6.6), 17.302.32; Bede 5 (B9.6.7), 13.430.22; Mart 5 (Kotzor) (B19.5), Ma 25, A.3.

  • Comment on (B): -, flourish, florieren,

    The figurative meaning is documented especially in PS(E).

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Occurrences Last Update: 02.07.2009 11:52

  • Bede 4 (B9.6.6), 17.302.32 þa lond greowon & blostmedon, ond æfter cwom god gear & wæstmbeorende[1]
  • Bede 5 (B9.6.7), 13.430.22 þæs blostmiendan feldes
  • Mart 5 (Kotzor) (B19.5), Ma 25, A.3 swa þas treowa ðonne hi blostmiað þurh þæs windes blæd
  • Ps(E), 102,15 FLOREBIT blosmæþ
  • Ps(E), 131,18 FLOREBIT blosmæþ
  • Ps(E), 27,7 REFLORUIT blostmæt ł bleow
  • Ps(E), 71,16 FLOREBUNT blosmiæþ
  • Ps(E), 89,6 FLOREAT blosmaþ
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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.
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.
PS (E), PsCa (E): Harsley, Fred. Eadwine's Canterbury Psalter. Unaltered reprint London, Trübner, 1889. Early English Text Society. Woodbridge, Suffolk u.a.: Boydell & Brewer, 2000.
Kotzor, Günter (ed.). Das altenglische Martyrologium. Abhandlungen / Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. N.F. 88. München: Beck, 1981.
Liles, Bruce Lynn. The Canterbury Psalter: An Edition with Notes and Glossary. Diss Stanford U. Stanford: 1967.
Miller, T. The Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. 4 vols. EETS 95, 96, 110, 111. Repr. of 1890-98. New, York, NY: Kraus, 1978.
MS Cambridge, Trinity College, R.17.1.
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Note in the DOE: "Ca blostmodan; cf. BEDA. Hist.eccl. 4.13, 374 REFLORUIT TERRA".