fille

Old-English: fil, fille, cerfille, fillan,

Latin (Machine generated): CERPILLUM, CERUILLUM, SERPELLIM, SERPILLUM,

• →fille;
• →fille, rēade;
• →wudu;
• →wudu-fille;
• →wudu-fille, reade;

• A: plant: native
  Thymus serpyllum L., breckland thyme, Sand-Thymian
• B: plant: foreign Not recorded in Clapham, Stace (1985,569) labeles 'introduced'; a source on the Internet (http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/madaus/thymus.html) specifyes wihtout giving references: "Thymian ist wohl erst im 11. Jahrhundert über die Alpen gebracht w
  Thymus vulgaris L., common thyme, Echter Thymian
• C: plant: introduced Probably by Romans? (Cf. http://www.frontiercoop.com/products.php?cn=Chervil%20Leaf&ct=spicesaz).
  Anthriscus cerefolium (L.) Hoffm., garden chervil, Garten-Kerbel

• Comment on (A): Thymus serpyllum L., breckland thyme, Sand-Thymian

  Cf. Dur 111 and the respective note: "CERUILLUM ist sicher aus SERPYLLUM (gr. έρπνλλος) entstellt, dem Namen, den die Römer für den Feldthymian' kannten (FB S.135). Die korrekte Form erscheint bei Aelfric S. 311,9 SERPILLUM: fille." Pettit (2001, glossary) suggests wild thyme (Thymus praecox Opitz subsp. arcticus (Durand) Jalas) as other possible native thyme species.

• Comment on (B): Thymus vulgaris L., common thyme, Echter Thymian

  The name →wudufille, which is also recorded in LA implies that wild and cultivated plants were differently named. The plant name →fille, reade, T. serpyllum because of its rose coloured flowers, indicates that different species were distinguished; T. vulgaris has white flowers. The name →wudu-fille, reade does not contradict this interpretation.

• Comment on (C): Anthriscus cerefolium (L.) Hoffm., garden chervil, Garten-Kerbel

  Cf. Epinal-Erfurt, 246 (CEREFOLIUM cunillae) and Pheifer's note (1974,76): "Cunillae = 'wild thyme' (L. CUNILA), not CEREFOIUM 'chervil'; CER(E)FOLIUM, -FILLON [...] may have been confused with SERPYLLON (cf. 895), or with OE. fille 'wild thyme' as in Dur. 111 CERUILLUM fille (Brown, C 244)." In the Nine Herbs Charm fille is probably used to denote A. cerefolium to sustain the alliteration. For other identifications cf. Pritzel / Jessen (1967,401): "Mittalt. CRASSINA, CUNILAGO, SERPILLUM, indess mit SATUREIA, KONELE, sowie mit Pimpinella carvi Kümmel und Anthriscus cere­folium Kerbel vielfach vermengt." Also cf. Napier's note on 56,38: "Cp. 416 [=CERPILLUM, ceruille] - CERPILLUM = CHÆREPHYLLUM = χαιρέφνλλον." Pettit (2001,LXXVI, 570) doubts this identification and suggests 'A. caucalis Bieb., bur-chervil, Hunds-Kerbel', a wild species; he also refutes Cameron (1993, 147), who suggests Chaerophyllum aureum L. (introduced), or Chaerophyllum temulum L. (rough chervil, native), or (hesitantly) Myrrhis odorata L. (sweet cicely, native).