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Sorbus_aucuparia_bd3_tafel_106

cwic-bēam

noun, m., a-decl., 11 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 25.04.2011 11:29

Old-English: cuicbeam, cvicbeam, cwicbeam, quecbom, quicbeam, cuiicbean, quecbom, cwicbeame,

Latin (Machine generated): CARISCUS, CARISCUS. MODICA MUSCA, IUNIPERUM,

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References Last Update: 21.11.2022 18:06

Meanings Last Update: 20.08.2009 10:19

  • A: plant: native
    Sorbus aucuparia L., rowan, Gewöhnliche Eberesche
  • B: plant: native
    Ulmus glabra Huds., wych elm, Berg-Ulme
  • C: plant: native
    ? Juniperus communis L., juniper, Gewöhnlicher Wacholder
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Comments Last Update: 25.04.2011 11:26

  • Comment on (A): Sorbus aucuparia L., rowan, Gewöhnliche Eberesche

    Cf. the ModE names: Britten / Holland (1886,603): "witch hazel, quick-beam, quicken, whicken, wicken or wicken tree." Also cf. OE →wīce; in the glosses cwicbēam and wīce are synonymous (WW 200/20f; 362/16). Pettit (2001,1, glossary) also suggests 'Sorbus torminalis (L.) Crantz, wild service tree, Elsbeere'.

    'Populus tremula L., aspen, Espe' the identification provided by BT, s.v., Cockayne (1962,III,321), and Hankins (1992,223) has at least to be ruled out for the LB as cwicbeam und →æsp occur together twice (27/10;35/34).

    L CARISCUS is not clear but cf. the following explanatory attempts: OED (s.v. quickbeam) = TAMARISCUS; Wynn (1961,376): = gr. μαρύισμος 'small nut'. Pheifers suggestion is the most plausibe: "it could be related to [...] CARICA 'Fig', in which case cuic­beam 'mountain ash' (ModE. quicken) might be a mistake for ficbeam". This explanation is supported by the gloss Dur 98 CARISCUS ficbeam (which again Lindheim explains as a corruption of cwic-bēam).

  • Comment on (B): Ulmus glabra Huds., wych elm, Berg-Ulme

    Also cf. OE →wīce; in the glosses cwicbēam and wīce are synonymous (WW 200/20f; 362/16).

  • Comment on (C): ? Juniperus communis L., juniper, Gewöhnlicher Wacholder

    Identification based on L IUNIPERUM; as a gloss to IUNIPERUM it is probably a confusion with a word form related to G Queckolter.[1]

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Occurrences Last Update: 20.08.2009 12:12

  • AntK, 123,11 CARISCUS cwicbeam
  • ClSt, C 16 CARISCUS cwicbeam, wice
  • ClSt, I 195 IUNIPERUM quicbeam
  • Cp, 380(C 106) CARISCUS cuicbeam, uuice
  • D 57, Schlutter, Anglia 35, 149 CARISCUS ?quecbom
  • Dur, 100 CARISCUS cvicbeam
  • Ep, 238 CARISCUS cuicbeam
  • HlOl, C 407 CARISCUS. MODICA MUSCA[2] wic UEL cwicbeam
  • LB, 20/41 nasg cwicbeam
  • MCharm 1 (A43.1), 17 and hæbbe him gæworht of cwicbeame feower Cristes mælo and awrite on ælcon ende: Matheus and Marcus, Lucas and Iohannes.
  • Med 5.10 (Schauman-Cameron) (B21.5.10), 22 wyrc him aec god bæð, eapuldorn, salhðorn, aesc, cuiicbean, aac, eofordrote, æscðrote, eolone, biscop wyrt, ifign, betonica, ribbe, rædic.
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Etymology Last Update: 25.04.2011 11:29

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Images Last Update: 25.04.2011 11:29

Sorbus aucuparia L., rowan, Gewöhnliche Eberesche
Sorbus_aucuparia_bd3_tafel_106

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.

Ulmus glabra Huds., wych elm, Berg-Ulme
Ulmus_glabra

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: →reference-information

Fitch, Walter Hood. Illustrations of the British Flora: London: Reeve, 1924.

? Juniperus communis L., juniper, Gewöhnlicher Wacholder
Juniperus_communis_bd1_tafel_023

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 I: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
ClSt: Stryker, William Garlington. The Latin-Old English Glossary in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Unpubl. diss. Stanford Univ.: 1952.
Cp: Hessels, John Henry. An Eighth-Century Latin Anglo-Saxon Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1890.
Cp: Lindsay, Wallace Martin. The Corpus Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1921.
Cp: Wynn, J. B. An Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Corpus Glosses. Unpubl. Diss. Oxford: 1961.
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.
Dur: Lindheim, B. von. Das Durhamer Pflanzenglossar. Beiträge zur englischen Philologie. 35. Bochum-Langendreer: Pöppinghaus, 1941.
Ep, Erf: Pheifer, J.D. (ed.). Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
Ep: Brown, Alan Kelsey. The Epinal Glossary edited with Critical Commentary of the Vocabulary. Vol. I: Edition. Vol. II: Commentary. Diss., Stanford University. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1969.
Hl: Oliphant, Robert Thompson. The Harley Latin-Old English Glossary. Edited from British Museum MS Harley 3376, Janua Linguarum, Series Practica XX. The Hague: Mouton, 1966.
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LB: Leonhardi, Günther. Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
WW, Prosp, Br: Wright, Thomas. Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies. 2nd ed. by Richard Paul Wülcker. Reprint of the 1884 ed. published by Trübner, London. Vol. 1: Vocabularies. Vol. 2: Indices. New York: Gordon, 1976.
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Schlutter, Otto B.. "Altenglisch-Althochdeutsches aus dem Codex Trevirensis No. 40." Anglia 35 (1912): 145-154.
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[1]:

Cf. Marzell (2000,2,1079f.): "Queckolter [...] Aus Wekholter [...] Wohl angelehnt an queck "lebendig, lebensfrisch" (nach den wintergrünen Blättern) [...] vgl. Quecke (Agriapyrum repens [...] quecholder "iuniperus" AhdGl. 3,386,18".

[2]:

Cf. CGL 5,354,68: CASMONIA MUSCA UENENOSA; 69: CARISCUS MUSCA MODICA.