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Polygonum_bistorta_bd2_tafel_032

drācentse

noun, f., n-decl., 9 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 26.08.2011 10:17

Old-English: dracente, dracontja, draconze, draganse,

Latin (Machine generated): DRACONTEA .I.,

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Meanings Last Update: 25.08.2009 12:19

  • A: plant: foreign
    Dracunculus vulgaris Schott, dragon aurum, Drachenwurz
  • B: plant: native
    Polygonum bistorta L., common bistort, Schlangen-Wiesenknöterich
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Comments Last Update: 27.04.2011 13:32

  • Comment on (A): Dracunculus vulgaris Schott, dragon aurum, Drachenwurz

    Cf. →bulentse and HA XV: "þeos wyrt þe man dracontea 7 oþrum naman dracentse nemneþ" (Cockayne 1962,I,106); also cf. Lindheim's note on Dur 143 (1941,46). In the L HA ASCLEPIAS is a synonym of DRACONTEA.

  • Comment on (B): Polygonum bistorta L., common bistort, Schlangen-Wiesenknöterich

    Fischer (2001,279) lists YSION, GUGARUS, ALABARDON as old names for P. bistorta.

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Occurrences Last Update: 21.10.2010 14:48

  • HA, XV, 106/20[1] nsg Dracentse
  • HA, XV, 106/22 asg þe man DRACONTEA 7 oþrum naman dracentse nemneþ
  • HA, XV, 116/12[2] asg dracentsan
  • HA, XV, 12/10 nsg DRACONTEA ƀ ys dracentse
  • LA, 122/13 nsg draganse
  • Laud, 471 DRACONTEA .I. drachense. ASCLIPIS UEL YSION. GIGARUS. ALABARDAN UEL ASCLEPIAS
  • LB, 107/4 asg draconzan
  • LB, 52/28 asg dracontjan
  • PD, 29/2[3] gsg dracentan
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Etymology Last Update: 26.08.2011 10:17

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Image Last Update: 26.08.2011 10:17

Polygonum bistorta L., common bistort, Schlangen-Wiesenknöterich
Polygonum_bistorta_bd2_tafel_032

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

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BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
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Dur: Lindheim, B. von. Das Durhamer Pflanzenglossar. Beiträge zur englischen Philologie. 35. Bochum-Langendreer: Pöppinghaus, 1941.
HA: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Herbarium Apuleii Platonici." In: Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Sience in this Country before the Norman Conquest. Vol. 1. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 1-325.
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[1]:

MS B: dragance by later hand.

[2]:

Ch. XX; Hunger (1935,134): DRACONTEÆ SEMEN.

[3]:

Cf. Löweneck (1896,29,A.1): "am untern Rande [des Blattes] steht: Eftsona nim dracentan wrutruma."