gran-wisc

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

Type: plant-part

Last Update: 31.05.2011 09:01

Old-English: gronuisc, gronwisc, granwisc,

Latin (Machine generated): ACUS,

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Meaning Last Update: 20.11.2008 10:48

  • A: plant-part
    -, chaff, Granne
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Comment Last Update: 22.10.2009 10:43

  • Comment on (A): -, chaff, Granne

    Cf. Wynn (1961,919): "The lemma is glossed according to the two senses of the word: (1) CL ACUS, needle, hence OE netl (2) LL ACUS, awn, chaff [cf. →sifeþa], hence OE gronuisc [...] chaff, beard of barley [...] The word gronuisc prabably has as ist first element OE granu, moustache, MLG gran, OHG grana (human) beard, beard of barley. The second element, OE wisc, is probably cognate with NHG, Dutch Wisch".

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Occurrences Last Update: 04.08.2009 06:40

  • ClSt, A 195 ACUS nædl ł gronwisc
  • Cp, 69(A 160) ACUS netl UEL gronuisc
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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.
Cp: Hessels, John Henry. An Eighth-Century Latin Anglo-Saxon Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1890.
Cp: Lindsay, Wallace Martin. The Corpus Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1921.
Cp: Wynn, J. B. An Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Corpus Glosses. Unpubl. Diss. Oxford: 1961.
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.
MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
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.