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colt-grǣg
noun,
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hapax legomenon
Type: plant
Last Update: 24.04.2011 11:39
Meaning Last Update: 03.08.2009 13:34
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A: plant: native
Tussilago farfara L., colt's foot, Huflattich
Comment Last Update: 14.05.2012 17:17
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Comment on (A): Tussilago farfara L., colt's foot, Huflattich
Occurrence Last Update: 26.05.2009 06:11
Etymology Last Update: 24.04.2011 11:39
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Image Last Update: 24.04.2011 11:39
Tussilago farfara L., colt's foot, Huflattich |
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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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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.
André, Jacques.
Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique. Paris: Société d'édition 'les belles lettres', 1985.
Biggam, Carole P..
"Grey' in Old English: an Interdisciplinary Semantic Study. London: Runetree, 1998.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.
[1]:
N.: "Read coltgræig."
Both L lemmata denote T. farfara (cf. André 1985, s.v.).
Etymology: HEW relates the word to OE græg 'gray, grau' (cf. s.v.: "mit unten graufilzigen Blättern") but none of the ModE (cf. Britten/Holland 1886, Index) or NHG (cf. Pritzel/Jessen 1882,416f.) names refers to this attribute. In my opinion cologræig could as well be a corruption of coltnægl, which would be a literal translation of L UNGULA CABALLI (cf. for example: ClQu 27,12: UNGULA nægl).