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Type: plant
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Old-English: heard, heord,
Latin (Machine generated): IN ARBOREM SICOMORUM, IN ARBOREM SYCIMORUM:,
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A: plant: foreign
Ficus sycomorus L., mulberry fig, Esels-Feige
Comment Last Update: 07.06.2011 11:13
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Comment on (A): Ficus sycomorus L., mulberry fig, Esels-Feige
Occurrences Last Update: 07.08.2009 14:01
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.
Li, Ru (= Mt, Mk, Lk, Jn):
Skeat, Walter William.
The Four Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian, and Old Mercian Versions. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1871.
Genaust, Helmut.
Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen. 3., vollst. überarb. und erw. Auflage. Hamburg: Nikol, 2005.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Nero D.iv..
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Auct. D.2.19.
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An additional marginal gloss: .I. gelic ficbeame. Cf. Björkman (1904,181): "uuilda ficpouma usw. SICOMOROS".
SYCOMORUS is, analog to MORON 'mulberry, bramble, Maulbeere, Brombeere' (L MORUS), an alteration of Gk SYKAMINOS 'mulberry tree, Maulbeerbaum'. The leaves are similar to the mulberry tree, the fruits resemble figs (cf. Genaust, s.v. SYCOMORUS). Heard, heord probably are clippings of heartbrer, heortbrer = MORUS (cf. s.v. [LIKTO heorot-brēr]).