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Agrostemma_githago_bd2_tafel_049

giþ-rife

noun, f., n-decl., 40 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 30.05.2011 09:44

Old-English: giþhroofe, giþrife, gitrife, gyþhrofe, gyþrife, giþrife, gyðrife, giþrifan, gitrifan, giðhrofan, gyþrifan, gyðhrofan, geþrifan,

Latin (Machine generated): LASSAR ł ÆSDRE,

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Meaning Last Update: 20.10.2009 08:41

  • A: plant: introduced "As early as Iron Age." Cf. http://wildseed.co.uk/species/view/4.
    Agrostemma githago L., corncockle, Gewöhnliche Kornrade
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Comment Last Update: 30.05.2011 09:40

  • Comment on (A): Agrostemma githago L., corncockle, Gewöhnliche Kornrade

    Giþhrofan and gyþhrofan are not recorded in the dictionaries before the DOE. On the vowel quantity cf. →giþ-corn. On the indentification cf. WW 440/4: LASSAR UEL ÆSDRE, gyþrife. On LASSAR cf. WW 440, note 2: "Read: LASER. I. is used as well in Anglo-Saxon as in Latin." Also cf. WW 54/42: ZIZANIA, laser; WW 439/32: LOLIUM, lasur. GITH, ZIZANIA, LOLIUM are old names for A. githago, but also denote other crop weeds like Lolium temulentum L., Bromus secalinus L., Nigella arvensis L.; cf. Marzell (2000,1,153f).

    Etymology: On gy̅þ- cf. s.v. →gīþcorn; on -rife cf. s.v. →hege-rife and Holthausen (1974, s.v. rife). The forms gyþhrōfan and giþhrōfan seem to be formed analogous to the plant name →wudu-rōfe. Also cf. ME hayroue, ModE hairough (= OE →hege-rife), which seem to be formed after the second element of the ME and ModE equivalent of →wudu-rōfe.[1]

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Occurrences Last Update: 03.08.2009 14:36

  • ClSt, L 348[2] LASSAR ł ÆSDRE gyþrife
  • LA, 116/1 asg gyþhrofan
  • LA, 120/4 asg giþhrofan
  • LA, 198/5 asg giþrifan
  • LA, 198/7 asg giþrifan
  • LA, 96/5 asg giþrifan
  • LB, 102/8 asg gyþrifan
  • LB, 104/21 asg giþrifan
  • LB, 105/13 nsg gyþrife
  • LB, 108/2 asg gyþrifan
  • LB, 108/22 asg gyþrifan
  • LB, 18/5 asg gyþrifan
  • LB, 19/15 asg giþrifan
  • LB, 19/16 asg gyþrifan
  • LB, 19/3 gsg gyþrifan
  • LB, 21/13 asg giþrifan
  • LB, 28/11 asg gyþrifan
  • LB, 28/21 asg gyþrifan
  • LB, 29/12 nsg gyþrife
  • LB, 29/16 nsg giþrife
  • LB, 29/23 asg gyþrifan
  • LB, 29/27 asg gyþrifan
  • LB, 29/34 nsg gyþrife
  • LB, 29/39 nsg gyþrife
  • LB, 30/21 nsg giþrife
  • LB, 30/4 asg gyþrifan
  • LB, 32/27 nsg gyþrife
  • LB, 32/3 asg gyþrifan
  • LB, 40/40 nsg gyþrife
  • LB, 41/3 asg gyþrifan
  • LB, 42/15 nsg giþrife
  • LB, 42/1f nsg gyþrife
  • LB, 43/14 asg gyþrifan
  • LB, 43/16 nsg giþrife
  • LB, 7/5 asg gitrifan
  • LB, 82/20 asg gyþrifan
  • LB, 82/30 nsg gyþrife
  • LB, 82/36 nsg gyþrife
  • LB, 96/28 gsg gyþrifan
  • LB, 99/9 asg gyþrifan
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Etymology Last Update: 30.05.2011 09:44

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Image Last Update: 30.05.2011 09:44

Agrostemma githago L., corncockle, Gewöhnliche Kornrade
Agrostemma_githago_bd2_tafel_049

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

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.
Storms, Godfrid (ed.). Anglo-Saxon Magic. Reprint of the 1948 ed. published by M. Nijhoff, The Hague. Norwood, Pa: Norwood Editions, 1975.
[1]:

For example ME woderowe, ModE "woodruff" (cf. Brodin 1950,302).

[2]:

N.: "Read LASSAR, LAESER? Cf. LASER SIVE LASAR, CGL 6,627."