ciris

noun, f., a-decl., hapax legomenon

Type: plant-part

Last Update: 05.05.2012 20:15

Old-English: cirse, chirri-, ciris-, ciser-, cisir-, cyrs-, cysir-, cirs, cyrse,

Latin (Machine generated): (MYRTETA) FRUCTUS UT,

↑ top

References Last Update: 26.12.2022 18:24

↑ top

Meaning Last Update: 24.07.2009 14:50

A: plant-part: introduced But when? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry#Reintroduction_into_England
Prunus cerasus L., dwarf cherry, Sauerkirsche

↑ top

Occurrence Last Update: 22.04.2011 13:53

D 39, Meritt 59, 1[1] (MYRTETA) FRUCTUS UT cirs

↑ top

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.

Meritt, Herbert Dean. Old English Glosses. MLA General Series.16. Repr. New York: 1971.

MS Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug.135(54).

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.

[1]:

N.: "MS. MYRTETA DICITUR. UBI MULTE SUNT MYRTE.I.ARBORES FRUCTUS UT cirs. The group ARBORES FRUCTUS possibly stems from an original ARBORES FRUCTUOSAE, and cirs may be incomplete for cirstreow [...]; but since such a word as HABENS is at times omitted in glosses [...] the group likely means "trees having fruit like the cherry," this being a documentation of the simplex cirs."