æppel-wīn

noun, n., , hapax legomenon

Type: plant-product

Last Update: 29.03.2011 11:52

Old-English: æppelwin,

Latin (Machine generated): IDROMELUM,

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Reference Last Update: 21.11.2022 16:40

Meaning Last Update: 29.03.2011 11:44

  • A: plant-product: native
    -, cider, Apfelwein
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Comment Last Update: 29.03.2011 11:50

  • Comment on (A): -, cider, Apfelwein

    ML HYDROMELLUM denotes 'mead, Met' (Habel 1959, s.v.). The source for OE æppelwīn probably is Is. 20,3,11: HYDROMELUM, QUOD FIAT EX AQUA ET MALIS MATIANIS (our italics). The second part of the glos, OE beor, suggests a more general meaning, e.g. 'sweet, alcoholic beverages made from fruit, süßes, alkoholisches Getränk aus Früchten'.

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Occurrence Last Update: 21.04.2009 08:14

  • ClSt, I 446 IDROMELUM æppelwin, beor
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Research Literature

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.
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.
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.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
Rusche, Philip Guthrie. The Cleopatra Glossaries. Diss. Yale Univ. Yale University, 1996.
Voss, Manfred. "Strykers Edition des alphabetischen Cleopatraglossars: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 13:2 (1988): 123-138.