printæppel (2)
noun,
m.,
a-decl.,
5 occ.
Possible Types: plant-part, plant-related
Last Update: 17.10.2011 09:52
Old-English: æppel, -aepl, -aeppel, -æppel, cæneg-aepl,
Latin (Machine generated): DACTILORUM, SPERE,
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Meanings Last Update: 10.03.2009 10:02
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A: plant-part
-, fruit, Frucht -
B: plant-related
-, ball, Kugel
Comments Last Update: 17.10.2011 09:53
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Comment on (A): -, fruit, Frucht
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Comment on (B): -, ball, Kugel
SPERE = L SPHAERAE; Also see →hunigæppel, weaxæppel.
Occurrences Last Update: 17.10.2011 09:09
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.
ClQu:
Quinn, John Joseph.
The Minor Latin-Old English Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Diss Stanford U. 1956.
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.
Banham, Debby.
The Knowledge and Uses of Food Plants in Anglo-Saxon England. Diss. Cambridge University. Index to Theses. 40. Cambridge: 1990.
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.
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.
[1]:
Napier and Goossens equally note that the OE gloss should be fingerappla.
[2]:
Ch. CXXXIV; cont.: cnuca tosomne þam gelice þe þu anne æppel wyrce; no botanical meaning cf. C"s translation: "pound together as thou wouldst work a dumpling".
[3]:
This description most likely refers to the custom of storing the dried juice in the forn of little balls/pills (cf. Dioscurides II,211).
OE æppel is also used to denote fruits (and other objects) which resemble an apple in some way (cf. Banham 1990, 107): →æppel, affricanisc; →æppel, gecyrnlod; →æppel, rēad; →brēmel-æppel; →ciser-æppel; →cod-æppel; →corn-æppel; →eorþ-æppel; →finger-æppel; →fīc-æppel; →gōd-æppel.
For the occurrences in PD, 33/8 the DOE ("PeriD, 51.33.7: "æpple of celidonia (? for cydonia)") also provides the meaning Cydoniae fructus, quince, Quitte following the L text of Pseudo-Theodore Priscianus Additamenta CUM AQUA IN QUA COXERIS MENTAM ET MALA CYDONIA.