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dy̅þ-hamor

noun, m., a-decl., 6 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 27.04.2011 14:53

Old-English: dyþhomer, dyþhomar, duþhama, duþhamor,

Latin (Machine generated): MALLEOLI, PAPIRUS,

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Meaning Last Update: 25.08.2009 13:42

  • A: plant: native
    Typha L., bulrush, a species of ~, Rohrkolben, eine Art von ~
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Comment Last Update: 27.04.2011 14:47

  • Comment on (A): Typha L., bulrush, a species of ~, Rohrkolben, eine Art von ~

    Cf. the gloss MALLEOLI, tyndercynn, ID EST dyþhomer (WW 429/40). L MALLEOLUS ('tiny hammer, Hämmerchen') originally denoted 'burning arrow, Brandpfeil' (cf. Menge-Güthling 1967, s.v.) but it seems to be that later it was understood as 'dry twigs, getrockente Zweige, Reiser',[1] which the word tyndercynn would also suggest. Each of these meanings can be easily matched with Typha L. because the stalks of the plant were used for the production of arrows as well as fuel.[2] Also cf. the NHG vernacular names: Daderkeule, Deutelkolben, Dittelkolben, Duttenkol­ben, Trommelschlegel, etc. (Pritzel / Jessen 1882,417).

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Occurrences Last Update: 03.06.2009 06:43

  • AldVGo, 1654 MALLEOLI[3] duþhaman dyþe
  • AldVNa, 1,1655 MALLEOLI[4] duþhaman
  • AntK, 112,6 PAPIRUS duþhamor
  • AntK, 146,3[5] PAPIRUS duþhamor
  • ClQu, 11,8 MALLEOLI[6] tyndercyn ID EST dyþhomer
  • LB, 33/1f nasg dyþhomar
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Etymology Last Update: 27.04.2011 14:53

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Research Literature

AldVGo: Goossens, Louis. The Old English Glosses of 'MS. Brussels, Royal Library 1650'. (Aldhelm's De Laudibus Virginitatis) Edited with an introduction, notes and indexes. Klasse der Letteren. Verhandelingen. 36,74. Brussels: Paleis der Academien, 1974.
AldVNa: Napier, Arthur Sampson. Old English Glosses. Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series. 11. Reprint of Oxford, Clarendon Press 1900. Hildesheim: Olms, 1969.
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.
ClQu: Quinn, John Joseph. The Minor Latin-Old English Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Diss Stanford U. 1956.
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.
LB: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Leech Book." 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. 2. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Longman [et. al.], 1961. 1-360.
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.
Deegan, Marilyn. A Critical Edition of MS. B.L. Royal 12.D.XVII: Bald's 'Leechbook'. Diss. Univ. of Manchester. 1988.
Hankins, Freda Richards. Bald's 'Leechbook' Reconsidered. Diss. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1993.
Lendinara, Patrizia. "The Glossaries in London, BL, Cotton Cleopatra A. iii." In: _Mittelalterliche volkssprachige Glossen: Internationale Fachkonferenz des Zentrums für Mittelalterstudien der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg 2. bis 4. August 1999._ Ed. Rolf Bergmann, Elvira Glaser, and Claudine Moulin-Fankhänel. Heidelberg: Winter, 2001. 189-215.
Menge, Hermann und Otto Güthling. Langenscheidts Großwörterbuch der lateinischen und deutschen Sprache. 16. Aufl., Unveränd. Neudr. [von: Menge - Güthling: Enzyklopädisches Wörterbuch der lateinischen und deutschen Sprache]). Berlin, München, Zürich: Langenscheidt, 1967.
MS London, British Library, Royal 12 D.xvii.
MS Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, 1650.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Digby 146.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
Rusche, Philip Guthrie. The Cleopatra Glossaries. Diss. Yale Univ. Yale University, 1996.
Voss, Manfred. "Quinns Edition der kleineren Cleopatraglossare: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 14:2 (1989): 127-139.
Wright, Cyril E. (ed.). Bald's Leechbook. Early English manuscripts in facsimile. 5. Kopenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1955.
[1]:

Cf. Wildhagen, Z.E.R.ps., p.204.

[2]:

The Gk plant name τύφη stems from τύφειν "to smoke, rauchen".

[3]:

Cf. note on AldVNa 1,1655.

[4]:

Also cf. Napier 2,43: MALLEOLI dyþe; 7,88: MALLEOLI firfodan.

[5]:

Cf. Is. 17,9,96: PAPYRUM DICTUM QUOD IGNI ET CEREIS EST APTUM; πύρ ENIM GRAECI IGNEM DICUNT.

[6]:

Cf. note on AldVNa 1,1655.