printciris
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,
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Meaning Last Update: 24.07.2009 14:50
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A: plant-part: introduced But when? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry#Reintroduction_into_England
Prunus cerasus L., dwarf cherry, Sauerkirsche
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."