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heoloþe
noun,
f.,
n-decl.,
2 occ.
Type: plant
Last Update: 26.11.2009 11:33
References Last Update: 04.11.2023 03:02
- eh-heoloþe;
- →hind-heoloþe;
- →hēah-heoloþe;
Meaning Last Update: 13.10.2008 20:42
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a: plant
Inula helenium L., elecampane, Echter Alant
Comment Last Update: 09.06.2011 09:03
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Comment on (a): Inula helenium L., elecampane, Echter Alant
Etymology Last Update: 26.11.2009 11:33
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Image Last Update: 26.11.2009 11:33
Inula helenium L., elecampane, Echter Alant |
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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
BW I:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
LB:
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.).
"Leech Book." In: Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Sience in this Country before the Norman Conquest. Vol. 2. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Longman [et. al.], 1961. 1-360.
LB:
Leonhardi, Günther.
Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
Deegan, Marilyn.
A Critical Edition of MS. B.L. Royal 12.D.XVII: Bald's 'Leechbook'. Diss. Univ. of Manchester. 1988.
MS London, British Library, Royal 12 D.xvii.
Wright, Cyril E. (ed.).
Bald's Leechbook. Early English manuscripts in facsimile. 5. Kopenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1955.
[1]:
Cockayne (1962,II, 274, n.1) suggests reading eh hioloþan. A parallel recipe in the same chapter suggests that the plant names hēah-heoloþe and heoloþe denote the same plant but this does not support Cockayne"s variant: LB 82/26ff: Leoht drenc; [...] betonica, heahhioloþe, hindhioloþe, gagille; 82/38ff: Leoht drenc; genim wermod 7 betonican 7 hioloþan læst, hindhioloþan.).
Etymology: Cf. Holthausen: "heoloþe f. in hēah ~ 'Alant', zu holm, hylt (wegen der Höhe)." But his argument is not very convincing because only the name →hēahhioloþe seems to refer to the plant's height. The form -hæleþe in the plant name hindhæleþe, a variant of →hind-heoloþe, could be a folk-etymology related to hǣlan 'heal, heilen' (with shortening because of its polysyllability) going back to -hioloþe, -heoloþe.