hrīseht

adjective, , , hapax legomenon

Type: plant-related

Last Update: 06.07.2011 11:37

Reference Last Update: 28.12.2022 16:19

Meanings Last Update: 14.10.2008 09:30

  • A: plant-related
    -, bushy, buschig
  • A: plant-related
    -, bristly, struppig
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Comments Last Update: 06.07.2011 11:35

  • Comment on (A): -, bushy, buschig

    Not a botanical term.

  • Comment on (A): -, bristly, struppig

    No botanical term. Cont. (Ald. 316,1): HIRSUTAS BIDENTUM LANAS ET SETOSA VERVECUM VELLERA. The meaning 'bristly' is a very likely identification for hrīseht (cf. G Ge­strüpp) but it may be possible that the gloss was chosen because of the phonetic similarity to HIRSUTAS (L HIRSUTUS 'bristly, struppig, dicht behaart', which is synonymous with SETOSUS in CGL 6).

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Occurrence Last Update: 12.08.2009 13:07

  • ClQu, 162,8 SETOSA þy hrisehtan, þe hærihtan[1]
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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.
CGL: Götz, G. (ed.). Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum a Gustavo Loewe incohatum. 7 vols. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1965.
ClQu: Quinn, John Joseph. The Minor Latin-Old English Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Diss Stanford U. 1956.
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 London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
Rusche, Philip Guthrie. The Cleopatra Glossaries. Diss. Yale Univ. Yale University, 1996.
Voss, Manfred. "Quinns Edition der kleineren Cleopatraglossare: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 14:2 (1989): 127-139.
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WW: þa hærihtam.