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finger-æppel

noun, m., a-decl., 8 occ.

Type: plant-part

Last Update: 26.08.2011 10:39

Old-English: fingrez (?), fingerappla, fingeræppla, fingerapplum, fingerapplu,

Latin (Machine generated): DACTILA .I. PALMULA. UEL FRUTICES UEL, DACTILIS, DACTILORUM, DACTILOS, DACTYLIS, DACTYLOS, PALMETI,

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Reference Last Update: 24.11.2022 10:18

Meaning Last Update: 13.05.2011 11:16

  • A: plant-part: foreign
    Fructus dactyli, date, Dattel
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Comment Last Update: 13.05.2011 11:17

  • Comment on (A): Fructus dactyli, date, Dattel

    Fingerappla clearly is a loan word; cf. the note on Laud 517 and Is. 17,7,1: FRUCTUS AUTEM EIUS DACTYLI A DIGITORUM SIMILITUDINE NUNCUPATI SUNT. Also cf. Hagen (1995,52).

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Occurrences Last Update: 08.10.2009 08:41

  • AldVGo, 2351 DACTILORUM appla[1]
  • AldVGo, 3734 PALMETI fingerapplu[2] winegeardes
  • AldVGo, 3735 DACTYLIS tanu, fingerapplum
  • AldVGo, 557 DACTYLOS clystra 7 fingerappla
  • AldVNa, 1,3843 DACTILIS fingerapplum, tanum
  • AldVNa, 1,427 DACTILOS clystro, fingerappla, clystra
  • Laud, 517[3] DACTILA .I. PALMULA. UEL FRUTICES UEL fingrez
  • LS 23 (MaryofEgypt) (B3.3.23), 660 and mid palmtreowa wæstmum þe we hatað fingeræppla
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Research Literature

AldVGo: Goossens, Louis. The Old English Glosses of 'MS. Brussels, Royal Library 1650'. (Aldhelm's De Laudibus Virginitatis) Edited with an introduction, notes and indexes. Klasse der Letteren. Verhandelingen. 36,74. Brussels: Paleis der Academien, 1974.
AldVNa: Napier, Arthur Sampson. Old English Glosses. Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series. 11. Reprint of Oxford, Clarendon Press 1900. Hildesheim: Olms, 1969.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
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.
Laud: Stracke, J. Richard (ed.). The Laud Herbal Glossary. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.
Hagen, Ann. A Second Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food & Drink: Production & Distribution. First publ. 1995. Hock-wold cum Wilton, Norf.: Anglo-Saxon Books, 1995.
Magennis, Hugh. The Old English life of St Mary of Egypt. Exeter medieval texts and studies. Exeter: Univ. of Exeter Press, 2002.
MS Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, 1650.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Digby 146.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Laud Misc. 567.
Sauer, Hans. Patterns of loan-influence on the Medieval English plant names, with special reference to the influence of Greek. In: Foreign Influences on Medieval English, Eds. Jacek Fisiak, and Magdalana Bator. Studies in English medieval language and literature. 28. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2011. 55-76.
[1]:

Note in the DOE: "prob. for fingerappla; erasure before appla, AldV 13.1 2394 appla;".

[2]:

This gloss is not in AldVNa 1,3842 (only wingeardes). Cf. Goossens, n.3734: "Fingerapplu wrongly attributed to PALMETI (the gl. belongs with DACTYLIS, see next entry [s.s.v. DACTYLIS]".

[3]:

Stracke, n.: "The Gk. δακτυλος means both "finger" and "date", and it may be that UEL FRUTICES UEL fingrez is intended to note that fact; but it is likely that we may read fingrez as a shortened form of fingeraeppel."