brīw

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

Type: plant-product

Last Update: 21.04.2011 16:28

Old-English: briig, briw, briu, briwes, briwe, briwas,

Latin (Machine generated): PULENTA,

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Reference Last Update: 18.10.2022 12:32

  • brīwan;
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Meaning Last Update: 13.07.2009 07:38

  • A: plant-product
    -, mash, Brei
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Comment Last Update: 13.07.2009 07:42

  • Comment on (A): -, mash, Brei

    Any mushy dish, paste, or porridge mainly from grain or meal used in a medical context (cf. DOE). L POLENTA = 'pearl barley, Gerstengraupen'; cf.smedma, →wyrt-mete.

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Occurrences Last Update: 18.05.2009 06:24

  • Cp, 1707 (P 867) PULENTA briig
  • Ep, 767 PULENTA briig
  • Erf, 767 PULENTA briig
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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.
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.
Ep, Erf: Pheifer, J.D. (ed.). Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
Ep: Brown, Alan Kelsey. The Epinal Glossary edited with Critical Commentary of the Vocabulary. Vol. I: Edition. Vol. II: Commentary. Diss., Stanford University. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1969.
Bischoff, Bernard, et al. (eds.).. The Épinal, Erfurt, Werden and Corpus Glossaries. Early English manuscripts in facsimile 22. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1988.
Lindsay, Wallace Martin. Corpus, Épinal, Erfurt and Leyden Glossaries. Publications of the Philological Society VIII. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144.
MS Epinal, Bibliotheque Municipale, 72.
MS Erfurt, Wissenschaftliche Allgemeinbibliothek, Amplonianus F.42.
Sauer, Hans. "Old English Plant-Names in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary: Etymology, Word-Formation and Semantics." In: _Words, Lexemes, Concepts - approaches to the lexicon. Studies in honour of Leonhard Lipka._ Ed. Wolfgang Falkner and Hans-Jörg Schmidt. Tübingen: Narr, 1999. 23-38.