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fīf-fingre ?
noun,
f.?,
n-decl.,
hapax legomenon
Type: plant
Last Update: 13.05.2011 09:28
Meaning Last Update: 13.05.2011 08:59
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A: plant: native
? Potentilla reptans L., creeping cinquefoil, Kriechendes Fingerkraut
Comment Last Update: 06.10.2009 12:06
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Comment on (A): ? Potentilla reptans L., creeping cinquefoil, Kriechendes Fingerkraut
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? Potentilla reptans L., creeping cinquefoil, Kriechendes Fingerkraut |
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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
BTC:
Campbell, Alistair (ed.).
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Revised and Enlarged Addenda to the Supplement by T. N. Toller. London: Oxford University Press, 1972.
BTS:
Toller, Thomas Northcote.
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Nachdruck der Ausgabe von: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
BT:
Bosworth, Joseph.
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Ed. by Thomas Northcote Toller. Reprint 1973. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882.
BW II:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
ClH:
Clark Hall, John Richard.
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. 4th ed. MART 14. Cambridge: University Press, 1960.
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.
MED:
Kurath, Hans and Sherman M. Kuhn.
Middle English Dictionary. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1952.
PD:
Löweneck, Max (ed.).
Peri Didaxeon. Erlanger Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 12. Erlangen: Junge, 1896.
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.).
"Peri Didaxeon." 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. 3. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 82-143.
Field, John.
"Crops for Man and Beast'. Leeds Studies in English n.s. 18 (1987): 111-123.
Sanborn, Linda (ed.).
An Edition of British Library MS. Harley 6258B: Peri Didaxeon. Diss. Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 1983.
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Also recorded by Cockayne; MS. fiffringran. Cf. Löweneck (1896,56, note on 35/5): "fiffingran. Dafür im lat. Texte das von mir nicht abgedruckte STAFISAGRIAM, ein Wort, über dessen Bedeutung ich keinen Aufschluß erhalten konnte." Cf. HA, ch. CLXXX: (table of contents): HERBA STAIUS AGRIA (Cockayne, 1961.I.66/19) and (text) STAUIS AGRIA (316/8). The model for HA CLXXX is Dioscorides IV,156 (Berendes 1902,451), which is a description of Delphinium staphisagria L., stavesacre, Scharfer Rittersporn. The reason for the name "five-finger (wort), Fünffinger(kraut) is not clear.
Probably a variant of →fīf-lēafe? Not recorded in BT(SC), MED. Cf. Cockayne (1961,III,326, and ClH (1964, s.v.): "fīffingre f. 'potentilla', 'primula', cinque-foil, oxlip? Lcd.['vivefinger']." ClH bases his suggestions probably on the meanings for the ModE plantname 'five-fingers' recorded by Britten / Holland (1886, s.v.). On etymology cf. Hoops (1889,17), who, in my opinion, interpretes too much into a plant name recorded only once.