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Mentha_pulegium_1924

dweorge-dwostle

noun, f., n-decl., 37 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 27.04.2011 14:07

Old-English: dueorgeduostle, duergaedostae, duergedostle, duuergaedostae, dveorgedveosle, dweorgedwæsle, dweorgedweosle, dweorgedwesle, dweorgedwostle, dweorgesdwostle, dwergedosle, dworgedwostle, dwurgedwesle, dwyrgedwysle, dweorgedwostle, dweorgedwosle, dueorgedueosle, dwyrcgedwosle, duuergaedostae,

Latin (Machine generated): POLLEGI, POLLEGIA, PULEIUM, PULEUM, PULIUM, PULLEIUM,

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Meaning Last Update: 25.08.2009 13:14

  • A: plant: native
    Mentha pulegium L., pennyroyal, Poleiminze
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Comment Last Update: 27.04.2011 14:25

  • Comment on (A): Mentha pulegium L., pennyroyal, Poleiminze

    Etymology: Holthausen (1918,260-6) refers to the gloss Ep/Erf: PULIUM duuergaedostae and PULEUM duergaedostae (cf. Pheifer 1974,44 / 253) and because of the missing second -w- suggests: "Oder sollte dostae = ahd. tosta 'dost' sein?" Origanum vulgare L. (= OHG tosta, dost(o)); 'wild marjoram, Brauner Dosten, Wohlgemut and Mentha pulegium L. are related in several ways, in the Middle Ages O. vulgare shared the ML plant name PULEGIA MAIOR with M. pulegium, which makes the follwing explanation worth considering: the OE plant name dweorgedwostle is based on assimilation at a distance and on analogue adaption of similar diminutive formation meaning 'dwarf-dost' (= 'little dost').

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Occurrences Last Update: 21.10.2010 14:51

  • Br,WW, 300,24 POLLEGIA broþerwyrt, hælwyrt, dweorgesdwostle
  • Cp, 712 (P 877). PULLEIUM duergedostle
  • Dur, 277 POLLEGIA hyllvyrt UEL dveorgedveosle
  • Ep, 831 PULIUM duuergaedostae
  • Erf, 831 PULEUM duergaedostae
  • HA, XCIV, 204/5 Dweorge dweosle[1]
  • HA, XCIV, 204/7[2] asg þe man POLLEGIUM 7 oþrum naman dweorge dwosle nemneþ
  • HA, XCIV, 220/11[3] asg dweorge dwoslan
  • HA, XCIV, 282/24[4] nsg dweorge dwosle
  • HA, XCIV, 38/12 nsg pollegion ƀ is dweorge dwosle[5]
  • LA, 102/2 asg dweorgedwoslan
  • LA, 102/8 nsg dweorgedwosle
  • LA, 196/10 asg dweorgedwostlan
  • Laud, 1141 PULEIUM dwergedosle
  • LB, 18/23 asg dweorgedwostlan
  • LB, 19/3 asg dweorgedwostlan
  • LB, 32/9f asg dweorgedwostlan
  • LB, 37/23 nsg dweorgedwostle
  • LB, 37/7[6] asg dweorgedwostlan
  • LB, 41/6 nsg dweorgedwostle
  • LB, 56/38 asg dweorgedwostlan
  • LB, 56/8 asg dweorgedwostlan
  • LB, 69/1 asg dweorgedwostlan
  • LB, 71/9 asg dweorgedwostlan
  • LB, 72/18 asg dweorgedwostlan
  • LB, 82/27 nsg dweorgedwostle
  • LB, 82/30 nsg dweorgedwostle
  • LB, 83/3 nsg dweorgedwostle
  • LB, 88/32[7] asg dweorgedwostlan
  • LB, 94/5 asg dweorgedwostlan
  • PD, 17/28 asg dworgedwostlan, HOC EST POLLEGIA
  • PD, 17/29f asg dworgedwostlan
  • PD, 31/28[8] asg dueorgeduostle
  • Æ, (C) 311,11f POLLEGIA hylwyrt oþþe dwyrgedwysle
  • Æ, (F) 311,11f POLLEGI dwurgedwesle
  • Æ, (J) 311,11f POLLEGIA hylwyrt oþþe dwyrgedwysle
  • Æ, 311,11f POLLEGIA hylwyrt oþþe dweorgedwesle
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Etymology Last Update: 27.04.2011 14:07

  • Etymology: OE Etymology-Comment:

    First element: OE dweorg 'dwarf' or 'cramp, fever' ?; IE *dhuergh- > Gmc *dwerga-; cf. OHG twerg, G Zwerg, ON dvergr, OFr dwerch; Second element (doste, see -d(w)ost(l)e) probably a plant name which is, however, not independently attested in OE and extinct in ModE; probably cognate with G Dost, which refers to a plant, the 'wild marjoram' and sometimes means also 'bunch'; cf. OHG dost(o), MHG doste, toste, G Dost, Skr dhustūra.

  • Word-Formation: noun/noun
  • Word-Formation-Comment: -dwostle (also not attested independently) is apparently a diminutive of -doste with the suffix -el (cf. bisceop-wyrt and bisceop-wyrtel; wudu-binde and wudu-bindle).
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External Reference Last Update: 27.05.2007 12:15

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Image Last Update: 27.04.2011 14:07

Mentha pulegium L., pennyroyal, Poleiminze
Mentha_pulegium_1924

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: →reference-information

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

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Research Literature

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[1]:

MS B: dwosle.

[2]:

Cont.: þonne ys þeos wyrt [=dweorge dwosle] twegea cynna ƀ is wer 7 wif. Se wer hafaþ hwite blostman 7 ƀ wif hafath reade oþþe brune.

[3]:

Ch. CVI; Hunger (1935,156): PULEIUM.

[4]:

Ch. CLVI; Cont.: syle drincan on wine [...] þe ær wære organe oþþe dweorge dwosle on gewylled.

[5]:

MS H dwæsle.

[6]:

Leonhardi has dweorge dwostlan.

[7]:

Leonhardi has dweorge dwostlan.

[8]:

MS ducorgeduostle; Cockayne (1962,III,118/16) dueorgedwostle; Cont. (Löweneck 1896,31/10ff): þisne læcedon do þan manne, þa hym beoþ on hyra brosten nearuwe, þat Greccæ hæteþ asmaticos; 31/14f: hwile he riþaþ, swylce he on dueorge sy; 31/24f: gyf wyntra sy, þanne scealt þu niman pollegian and seoth hy on watere; 31/28: oþþer mid harehunan, gif þu dueorgeduostle næbbe. Löweneck (1896,56) on POLLEGIAN (31/25): "POLLEGIAN aus Versehen des Übersetzers für lat. HERBE POLLINE Blütenstaub von Gras." Neither has dueorgeduostle a correspondent in the L text - but harehunan has: MARRUBII (Löweneck (1896,30/17). In our opinion the confusion in translation (POLLINE vs. POLLEGIA "dueorgeduostle") was caused by the description of the illness (swylce he on dueorge sy). Cf. Löweneck (1896,56, n. on35/28) s.v. cicena mete.