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ceaster-wyrt
noun,
f.,
i-decl.,
hapax legomenon
Type: plant
Last Update: 16.04.2012 18:48
References Last Update: 27.12.2022 11:52
Meanings Last Update: 16.04.2012 18:48
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A: plant: foreign
Helleborus niger L., christmas rose, Christrose -
B: : foreign
Veratrum album L., white veratrum, Weißer Germer -
C: plant: native
Daphne mezereum L., mezereon, Gewöhnlicher Seidelbast
Comment Last Update: 16.04.2012 18:57
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Comment on (A): Helleborus niger L., christmas rose, Christrose
Occurrence Last Update: 19.05.2009 16:21
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Etymology Last Update: 16.04.2012 18:48
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Images Last Update: 16.04.2012 18:48
Helleborus niger L., christmas rose, Christrose |
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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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Veratrum album L., white veratrum, Weißer Germer |
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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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Daphne mezereum L., mezereon, Gewöhnlicher Seidelbast |
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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
BT:
Bosworth, Joseph.
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Ed. by Thomas Northcote Toller. Reprint 1973. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882.
BW I:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
ClH:
Clark Hall, John Richard.
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. 4th ed. MART 14. Cambridge: University Press, 1960.
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.
LB:
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.).
"Leech Book." In: Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Sience in this Country before the Norman Conquest. Vol. 2. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Longman [et. al.], 1961. 1-360.
LB:
Leonhardi, Günther.
Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.).
Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. 3 vols. with a New Introduction by Charles Singer. Rev. Ed. London: Holland Press, 1961.
Deegan, Marilyn.
A Critical Edition of MS. B.L. Royal 12.D.XVII: Bald's 'Leechbook'. Diss. Univ. of Manchester. 1988.
Hankins, Freda Richards.
Bald's 'Leechbook' Reconsidered. Diss. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1993.
Manitius, Max.
"Angelsächsische Glossen in Dresdner Handschriften." Anglia 12 (1901): 428-435.
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 London, British Library, Royal 12 D.xvii.
Wright, Cyril E. (ed.).
Bald's Leechbook. Early English manuscripts in facsimile. 5. Kopenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1955.
Cockayne (1962,II,375) and BT, ClH, s.v. provide this meaning as secure identification without further comment. The meaing of the plant name is secured by ceaster-, which does no occur in other plant names. A formation of →ceaster-æsc to ceasterwyrt is likely as H. niger is not a tree (cf. →æsc (1)) but a herb and the name -æsc could have been regarded as irrtating. The possibility that ceasterwyrt denotes other plants than H. niger is equally possible, cf. →ceaster-æsc.
The Dresden gloss HELLEBORUS setrewort (Manitius 1901,434) is not a corrupted ceasterwyrt but belongs to OHG sittirwurz, suterwrz, and MHG zitterwrze (cf. Marzell 2000,2,800f.); also cf. ModE setter-grass, setterwort (Britten/Holland 1886,424).