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Elymus_repens

cwice

noun, f., n-decl., 31 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 25.04.2011 12:02

Old-English: cuique, cvice, cwice, quicae, quice, quiquae, þithe, wice, cuice, cwican,

Latin (Machine generated): FRUTECTA,.I. ARBUSTA, GRAMEN, GRAMINA, GRAMINE, GRAMIS BIRECTA, GRMINA GERMINE, UIRECTA, VIRETA, VIRRATA,

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References Last Update: 25.12.2022 17:33

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Meanings Last Update: 25.04.2011 11:49

  • B: plant: native
    Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., bermuda grass, Gewöhnliches Hundszahngras
  • A: plant: foreign
    Elymus repens (L.) Gould, common couch, Gewöhnliche Quecke
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Comments Last Update: 25.04.2011 11:57

  • Comment on (A): Elymus repens (L.) Gould, common couch, Gewöhnliche Quecke

    On FRUTECTA cf. note on AldVNa 2,28; UIRECTA etc. cf. Wynn (1961,659): "CL VIRECTA,-ORUM, green places, green spots, greensward. Hence the meaning 'grass' and hence, presumably, the OE glossing quicae, couch-grass. The original all-Latin gloss is seen in Corpus, U 163 UIRECTA, QUAE IN AGRIS UIRENT."

  • Comment on (B): Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., bermuda grass, Gewöhnliches Hundszahngras

    HA: Suggested by D'Aronco (1998,54) on basis of the L text (GRAMEN QUOD IN SE TRIFRUCTUM HABET) and the illustration in HA, identification is backed up by Van Arsdall (2002,183).

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Occurrences Last Update: 20.10.2010 14:40

  • AldVGo, 1181 GRMINA GERMINE cwices[1]
  • AldVNa, 2,28[2] FRUTECTA,.I. ARBUSTA cwicas
  • AntK, 111,9 GRAMEN cwice
  • Br,WW, 297,28 GRAMINA cwice
  • Br,WW, 301,5 GRAMIS BIRECTA cwice
  • C 97.2, SedGl, Meritt 28, 327 GRAMINE cwicn[3]
  • ClQu, 36,19 UIRECTA wice[4]
  • ClSt, G 125 GRAMEN cwice
  • Cp, 1011(G 151) GRAMEN quice
  • Cp, 2158 (U 188) UIRECTA quicae
  • D 11, f.9v, col.2 GRAMEN cwice
  • D 11, Junius 77, S.220 UIRECTA cwice
  • D 25, f.143r, col.1/42 VIRETA þithe[5]
  • Dur, 185 GRAMEN cvice
  • Ep, 1088 UIRECTA quicae
  • Ep, 464 GRAMEN quiquae
  • Erf, 1087 UIRECTA cuique
  • Erf, 464 GRAMEN quicae
  • HA, LXXIX, 182/6 nsg Cwice
  • HA, LXXIX, 182/8 asg þe. man GRAMEN 7 oþrum naman cwice nemneþ
  • HA, LXXIX, 32/14 nsg GRAMEN ƀ is cwice
  • LA, 102/3[6] nsg quice
  • LA, 110/15 nsg cwice
  • LA, 114/3 nsg cwice
  • Laud, 1515 VIRRATA quice
  • Laud, 729 GRAMEN cwice
  • LB, 80/33 asg cwican
  • PsCa(C), 6,2[7] GRAMEN ciþas. westm ī cwice
  • PsCa(F), 6,2[8] GRAMINA cwicas
  • PsCa(G), 6,2[9] GRAMINA cwicas
  • PsCa(J), 6,2[10] GRAMINA cwicas
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Etymology Last Update: 25.04.2011 12:02

  • Etymology: Etymology-Comment:
  • Word-Formation:
  • Word-Formation-Comment:
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Images Last Update: 25.04.2011 12:02

Elymus repens (L.) Gould, common couch, Gewöhnliche Quecke
Elymus_repens

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: →reference-information

Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., bermuda grass, Gewöhnliches Hundszahngras
Cynodon_dactylon
Kops, Jan, and Johannes Everhardus van der Trappen. _Flora Batava of Afbeelding en Beschrijving van Nederlandsche Gewassen._ X Deel. Amsterdam: J. C. Sepp en Zoon, 1849.

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Research Literature

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.
[1]:

N.: "-e- alt. fr. -a-, probably by a different hand." Cf. our note on AldVNa.

[2]:

N.: "So MS. In H [...] cwicas more correctly glosses the prec. GRAMINA."

[3]:

N.: "For cwican."

[4]:

L. CWICE.

[5]:

For cwice? Cf. the most likely model ClQu 36,19 UIRECTA wice.

[6]:

Grattan / Singer (1951,102,A.1): "quice MS.L; qince Cockayne who, however, suggested reading quice "cquitchgrass"." Not recorded in BT(SC).

[7]:

PsR: SICUT IMBER SUPER GRAMEN ET SICUT NIX SUPER FENUM; PsGa: QUA­SI IMBER SUPER HERBAM ET QUASI STILLE SUPER GRAMINA.

[8]:

Cf. note on PsCa(C).

[9]:

Cf. note on PsCa(C).

[10]:

Cf. note on PsCa(C).