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ceaf

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

Type: plant-product

Last Update: 22.04.2011 08:50

Old-English: cheaf, cef, ceafe, cafu, chefu, ceafa,

Latin (Machine generated): PALEA, PALEAS,

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Reference Last Update: 21.11.2022 19:52

Meaning Last Update: 19.11.2008 19:59

  • A: plant-product
    -, chaff, Spreu
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Occurrences Last Update: 19.05.2009 16:17

  • AntK, 143,3 PALEA ceaf
  • C 15, LibSc 57, 7 PALEAS ceafa
  • Mt(Ru), 3,12 PALEAS þa ceaf
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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.
Li, Ru (= Mt, Mk, Lk, Jn): Skeat, Walter William. The Four Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian, and Old Mercian Versions. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1871.
LibSc: Rhodes, Ernest Wood. Defensor's Liber Scintillarum. Unaltered reprint [der Ausg.] London 1889. Early English Text Society ; 93. Woodbridge, Suffolk u.a.: Boydell & Brewer, 2001.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Auct. D.2.19.
MS London, British Library, Royal 7 C.iv.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.