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fon-fyr

noun, n., a-decl., 2 occ.

Type: plant-product

Last Update: 16.05.2011 10:12

Old-English: fon-fȳr,

Latin (Machine generated): GLIS,

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Meanings Last Update: 09.10.2009 09:13

  • B: plant-product
    -, fuel, kind of ~, Brennstoff, eine Art ~
  • A: plant-product
    ? -, bran, Kleie
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Comments Last Update: 09.10.2009 09:18

  • Comment on (A): ? -, bran, Kleie

    Cf. Zandt Cortelyou (1906,120): "fonfyr ist nichts weiter als lat. FURFUR 'Hülse des Getreides' und steht in Apposition zu GLIS 'Granne'."

  • Comment on (B): -, fuel, kind of ~, Brennstoff, eine Art ~

    Meritt notes on the occurrence: "the Otho manuscript [= D 11] has in the bottom margin of fol. 9r a long gloss an the lemma GLIS [...] ending with the pertinent note GLIS.GLIRITIS. LIGNUM PUTRIDUM [...] fonfyr I take to mean literally 'catch fire', defining GLIS in its meaning 'decaying wood', analogous to firefang [cf. OED, s.v.] in its applicatian to phosphorescent decaying material".

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Occurrences Last Update: 09.10.2009 09:18

  • ClSt, G 55 GLIS fonfyr ł egle
  • D 11, Meritt 1961, X/35 GLIS fonfyr ł egle
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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.
ClSt: Stryker, William Garlington. The Latin-Old English Glossary in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Unpubl. diss. Stanford Univ.: 1952.
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.
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.
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.
Meritt, Herbert Dean. "Old English Glosses, Mostly Dry Point." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 60 (1961): 441-450.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Otho E.i.
Rusche, Philip Guthrie. The Cleopatra Glossaries. Diss. Yale Univ. Yale University, 1996.
Voss, Manfred. "Strykers Edition des alphabetischen Cleopatraglossars: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 13:2 (1988): 123-138.
Voss, Manfred. "Altenglische Glossen aus MS Brit. Library, Cotton Otho E.i." AAA 22:2 (1996): 179-203.
Zandt Cortelyou, John van. Die altenglischen Namen der Insekten, Spinnen- und Krustentiere. Anglistische Forschungen 19 (1906): .