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candel-wyrt
noun,
f.,
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hapax legomenon
Type: plant
Last Update: 30.03.2012 08:57
Meaning Last Update: 21.07.2009 11:54
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A: plant: native
Verbascum thapsus L., great mullein, Kleinblütige Königskerze
Comment Last Update: 22.04.2011 07:01
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Comment on (A): Verbascum thapsus L., great mullein, Kleinblütige Königskerze
Occurrence Last Update: 19.05.2009 15:50
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Etymology Last Update: 30.03.2012 08:57
- Etymology: OE loan-translation Etymology-Comment:
hybrid loan translation of L HERBA LUCERNARIA (L CANDĒLA + OE wyrt). The Latin LUCERNA is rendered by, candel, a loan-word from Latin in OE.
- Word-Formation: noun/noun
- Word-Formation-Comment: hapax legomenon
External Reference Last Update: 18.01.2008 12:10
- DOE: candelwyrt. MED: -. OED: -
- DOE: candelwyrt. MED: -. OED: -. DOST: -. EDD: -. SND: -. ODEE: -. EWDS: Königskerze. Marzell: Verbascum Linné 1737. Misc.: -
- Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Digital Edition
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Verbascum thapsus L., great mullein, Kleinblütige Königskerze |
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Botanical-Information: stylised plate Source: →reference-information
Kops, Jan.
Flora Batava. 3. Deel. Amsterdam: J. C. Sepp en Zoon, 1814.
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Research Literature
AntK:
Kindschi, Lowell.
The Latin-Old English Glossaries in Planton-Moretus Manuscript 43 and British Museum Manuscript Additional 32,246. Unpubl. diss. Stanford University: 1955.
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.
Bierbaumer, Peter, and Hans Sauer, with Helmut W. Klug and Ulrike Krischke.
"Old English Plant Names Go Cyber: The Graz-Munich Dictionary Project." In: Scritti in onore die Maria Amalia D'Aronco, a cura di Silvana Serafin e Patrizia Lendinara, 2 vols. Udine: Forum, 2008. 43-62.
Earle, John.
English Plant Names. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.
Sauer, Hans, and Ulrike Krischke.
"The Dictionary of Old English Plant Names (DOEPN), or: The Graz Munich Dictionary Project." In: Old Names – New Growth: Proceedings of the 2nd ASPNS Conference, University of Graz, Austria, 6-10 June 2007, and Related Essays. Eds. Peter Bierbaumer and Helmut W. Klug. Drankfurt/Main: Lang, 2009. 146-180.
Sauer, Hans.
"The Morphology of Old English Plant-Names." In: _From Earth to Art. The Many Aspects of the Plant-World in Anglo-Saxon England._ Proceedings of the First ASPNS Symposium, University of Glasgow, 5-7 April 2000. ed. by Carole Biggam. Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, 2003. 161-179.
Sauer, Hans.
Patterns of loan-influence on the Medieval English plant names, with special reference to the influence of Greek. In: Foreign Influences on Medieval English, Eds. Jacek Fisiak, and Magdalana Bator. Studies in English medieval language and literature. 28. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2011. 55-76.
Loan-meaning has been chosen after Is. 17,9,73: PHLOMOS, QUAM LATINI HERBAM LUCERNARERN VOCANT, AB EO QUOD AD LYCHNIA FACIT. EADEM ET LUCUBROS, QUAD LUCEM PRAEBEAT UMBRIS. The interpretament INSANA does not fit here; for explanation see →pere.