printgedropa
noun,
m.,
n-decl.,
2 occ.
Last Update: 16.10.2009 11:50
Meaning Last Update: 13.04.2008 07:05
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A:
? -, drop, Tropfen
Comment Last Update: 16.10.2009 11:50
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Comment on (A): ? -, drop, Tropfen
Occurrences Last Update: 03.08.2009 06:30
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Research Literature
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.
Meritt, Herbert Dean.
Fact and Lore about Old English words. Stanford studies in language and literature. 13. New York: AMS P., 1954.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Digby 146.
Cf. Meritt (1954,70): "Aldhelm's context MELLIFLUOUS PALMETI DACTILOS ET MULSUM NECTARIS NICOLAUM [...] The lemma NICOLAUM refers to a kind of date, and Napier queried if gedropa 'drop' referred to the shape of the date [...] It is very likely that the glossator thought of NICOLAUM merely as a drop of something sweet".