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brōc-þung
noun,
m.,
a-decl.,
hapax legomenon
Type: plant
Last Update: 22.03.2012 07:30
Meaning Last Update: 13.07.2009 08:53
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A: plant: native
Cicuta virosa L., cowbane, Giftiger Wasserschierling
Comment Last Update: 22.03.2012 07:28
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Comment on (A): Cicuta virosa L., cowbane, Giftiger Wasserschierling
Occurrence Last Update: 18.05.2009 06:27
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Image Last Update: 22.03.2012 07:30
Cicuta virosa L., cowbane, Giftiger Wasserschierling |
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Botanical-Information: stylised plate Source: →reference-information
Thomé, Otto Wilhelm.
Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. In 4 Mappen ; 531 Tafeln in naturgetreuen Farben mit 668 Pflanzenarten. Leipzip: Teubner, 1938.
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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.
Laud:
Stracke, J. Richard (ed.).
The Laud Herbal Glossary. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.
Marzell, Heinrich.
Wörterbuch der deutschen Pflanzennamen. Mit Unterstützung der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Bearb. von Heinrich Marzell. Unter Mitw. von Wilhelm Wissmann. Köln: Parkland, 2000.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Laud Misc. 567.
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L TYPHUS = Typha angustifolia L., Rohrkolben (cf. André 1985,s.v.).
Not recorded in any other dictionary before the DOE. The L lemma (cf. TIPHUS[1] collancrog s.v. →collon-crōh) and the determinant brōc- point towards a plant with wet habitat; -þung towards a poisonous plant (cf. s.vv. →cluf-þung, →þung). A similar example is the gloss HIC TIPUS, Ae homelok (cf. s.v. →hymlic, and WW 645,21) from the 15th century also noted by Stracke. But he does not mention the following L lemma HEC SECUTA IDEM (WW 645,22), which seems to be CICUTA, that is often glossed with →hymlic. OE →hymlic is Conium maculatum L., hemlock, Gefleckter Schierling. Cowbane and hemlock are often interchanged in historical herbals (cf. Marzell, 2000,1,999 and 1119).