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Potentilla_reptans_bd3_tafel_089

fīf-lēafe

noun, f., n-decl., 34 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 11.08.2011 12:29

Old-English: fifleaf, fifleafe, fiflef, fifleue, fyfleaue, fifleafan, fifleauan,

Latin (Machine generated): PENTAFILON, QUINQUE FOLIA, QUINQUE FOLIUM, QUINQUEFOLIUM, QUINQUEUOLIUM, QUIOUEFOLIUM, PENTAFILON,

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References Last Update: 25.12.2022 16:45

Meaning Last Update: 06.10.2009 12:31

  • A: plant: native
    Potentilla reptans L., creeping cinquefoil, Kriechendes Fingerkraut
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Comment Last Update: 11.08.2011 12:45

  • Comment on (A): Potentilla reptans L., creeping cinquefoil, Kriechendes Fingerkraut

    Identification based on L QUINQIEFOLIUM.

    Etymology: lit. 'five-leave, Fünfblatt'; most likely a loan translation of the L name, which refers to the eye-catching, hand-shaped leaves. The occurrences LB 23/4, 35/25 and 35/27 indicate a foreign name: 23/4: wyrt þe hatte fifleafe, 35/25 and 35/27: quinquefolian, þæt is fif-leafe. It is striking that the phrase þæt is fifleafe is used in sequenced recipes.

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Occurrences Last Update: 13.09.2010 10:08

  • AntK, 118,1 QUIOUEFOLIUM, PENTAFILON[1] fifleafe
  • Br,WW, 300,34 PENTAFILON fifleafe
  • C 28, Na 56, 404 QUINQUEFOLIUM fifleue
  • C 36, Gough S 275[2] QUINQUEFOLIUM fyfleaue
  • ClQu, 41,11 QUINQUEUOLIUM fifleafe
  • Dur, 281 QUINQUE FOLIA fifleaf
  • HA, III, 6/15 nsg QUINQUEFOLIUM ƀ is fifleafe
  • HA, III, 86/20 nsg QUINQUEFOLIUM Fifleafe
  • HA, III, 86/22[3] asg fifleafe
  • HA, III, 86/24 gsg fifleafan
  • HA, III, 86/28 gsg fifleafan
  • HA, III, 88/11 gsg fifleafan
  • HA, III, 88/14 asg fifleafan
  • HA, III, 88/17 asg fifleafan
  • HA, III, 88/20f asg fifleafan
  • HA, III, 88/3 asg fifleafan
  • HA, III, 88/9 asg fifleafan
  • LA, 104/19 nsg fifleafe
  • LA, 116/1[4] asg [fif]leafan
  • LA, 122/9 nsg fifleafe
  • LA, 160/2 asg fifleafan
  • Laud, 1134 PENTAFILON fiflef
  • Laud, 1241 QUINQUE FOLIUM fifleaf
  • LB, 16/16 nsg fifleafe
  • LB, 16/4 gsg fifleafan
  • LB, 23/4 nsg fifleafe
  • LB, 34/9 nsg fifleafe
  • LB, 35/25 nsg fifleafe
  • LB, 35/27 nsg fifleafe
  • LB, 74/14 gsg fifleafan
  • LB, 80/16 asg V leafan
  • LB, 98/9 asg V leafan
  • PD, 17/23[5] asg fifleafan
  • Æ, 311,5 QUINQUEFOLIUM fifleafe
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Etymology Last Update: 11.08.2011 12:29

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Image Last Update: 11.08.2011 12:29

Potentilla reptans L., creeping cinquefoil, Kriechendes Fingerkraut
Potentilla_reptans_bd3_tafel_089

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

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Br: Logeman, Henri. "Zu Wright-Wülker I, 204-303." Archiv 85 (1890): 316-318.
BW I: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
BW II: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
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.
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[1]:

N.: "J, QUINQUEFOLIUM, PENTAFILLON."

[2]:

On Gough"s n.8 cf. Bierbaumer (1977,118f).

[3]:

Cont.: genim fifleafe þa wyrt; cf. Cockayne 1961,I,86, n.24: "fifleafan, B. The reading of V. seems careless grammar."

[4]:

Grattan / Singer (1951,116,A.1): "fifleafan: leafan MS.L; V. leafan C."

[5]:

L text (Löweneck 1896,16/11): QUINQUEFOLIUM.