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hrīs

noun, n., , 3 occ.

Type: plant-part

Last Update: 06.07.2011 11:32

Old-English: hris, ris,

Latin (Machine generated): FRONDES, FRONDES. SIUE DICUNTUR QUOD FERANT UIRGULTAS . UEL UMBRAS,

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References Last Update: 19.10.2022 02:15

Meanings Last Update: 09.12.2009 10:45

  • A: plant-part
    -, twig, Zweig
  • B: plant-part
    ? -, brushwood, Reisig
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Comment Last Update: 06.07.2011 11:27

  • Comment on (B): ? -, brushwood, Reisig

    The OE forms are probably nsg. and translate FRONDES. Cf. Is. 17,6,13: FRONDES, QUOD FERANT VIRGULTAS VEL UMBRAS; SUNT AUTEM CAUSA UMBRARUM.

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Occurrences Last Update: 12.08.2009 13:07

  • ClSt, F 454 FRONDES geleaf hrīs
  • D 11, f.8r, col.2 FRONDES geleaf hrīs
  • HlOl, F 774 FRONDES. SIUE DICUNTUR QUOD FERANT UIRGULTAS . UEL UMBRAS geleaf ris UEL bogas
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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.
Hl: Oliphant, Robert Thompson. The Harley Latin-Old English Glossary. Edited from British Museum MS Harley 3376, Janua Linguarum, Series Practica XX. The Hague: Mouton, 1966.
Is: Isidorus Hispalensis. Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Etymologiarum sive Originum Libri XX. Recogn. brevique adnot. crit. instruxit W. M. Lindsay. 1: Libros I - X continens. 2: Libros XI - XX continens. repr. 1911. (Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis) Oxonii: Typogr. Clarendoniano, 1966.
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.
Meritt, Herbert Dean. "Old English Glosses, Mostly Dry Point." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 60 (1961): 441-450.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Otho E.i.
MS London, British Library, Harley 3376.
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.
Voss, Manfred. "Altenglische Glossen aus MS Brit. Library, Cotton Otho E.i." AAA 22:2 (1996): 179-203.