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Cucumis_sativus_bd4_tafel_089

hwer-hwette

noun, f., n-decl., 16 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 07.07.2011 18:00

Old-English: hwervhete, hwærhwætte, hwerwette, verhvete, hservhete,

Latin (Machine generated): CUCUMER, CUCUMERIS, SILUATICA, [C]UCUMERES,

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Reference Last Update: 22.11.2022 16:55

Meanings Last Update: 16.12.2009 09:51

  • B: plant: foreign
    Ecballium elaterium Rich., squirting cucumber, Eselsgurke
  • A: plant: foreign
    ? Cucumis sativus L., cucumber, Gurke
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Comments Last Update: 07.07.2011 17:59

  • Comment on (A): ? Cucumis sativus L., cucumber, Gurke

    According to Hunger (cf. 1935,168) the plant described in the L HA, ch. CXV is C. sativus.

    Etymology: cf. Holthausen (1974, s.v.): "hwerhwette f. 'Gurke', zu ai. karkatị$ 'eine Kürbisart', s. WP. I,426." Hwer- belongs to the IGMC root *kųer- (in forms denoting 'sth. bowl- or cup-like'). Also cf. ON hverr 'cauldron, Kessel', OE hwer, OHG hwer (cf. Pokorny 1989,I,642). The second part of the compound Förster (1917,131) reluctantly links to OE hwettan 'whet, wetzen'): "Ob das öfter belegte ae. hwerhwette 'gurke' zu ae. hwer 'kessel' [...] und ae. hwettan 'wetzen' gehört (vgl. nhd. wetzsteinkraut für Ononis re-pens), ist sehr zweifelhaft." We have to note that the form of a cucumber does resemble a whetstone used to sharpen scythes or sickles in Anglo-Saxon times (cf. Brasch 1919,105). The gloss AntK 85,2 (WW 123,28) CUCUMA :cyperen hwer[1] seems to be proof for Förster's assumption that OE hwer and the compound element hwer- are indeed related: so hwer-hwette can easily be seen as folk-etymological transformation of the loan word →cyrfæt to hwer and hwettan.

  • Comment on (B): Ecballium elaterium Rich., squirting cucumber, Eselsgurke

    D'Aronco suggests Ecballium elaterium Rich., squirting cucumber, based on André (1985, s.v.) and the description in the HA: "grows near the sea in hot places." (Van Arsdall 2002,199).

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Occurrences Last Update: 18.11.2010 06:40

  • AntFö, 131,200 CUCUMER hwerhwette
  • Br,WW, 296,12 CUCUMERIS hwærhwætte
  • C 16, Prog, Förster, Archiv 125, 50/101f [C]UCUMERES hwerhwettan
  • Dur, 137 CUCUMERIS hservhete UEL verhvete
  • HA, CXV, 228/3 nsg Hwerhwette
  • HA, CXV, 228/5 asg þe man CUCUMERERA SILUATICUM 7 oþum naman hwerhwette nemneþ
  • HA, CXV, 46/1 nsg CUCUMERIS SILUATICA ƀ is hwerhwette
  • LA, 118/10 asg hwerhwettan
  • LA, 160/1 asg hwerhwettan
  • Laud, 1312[2] SILUATICA hwerhwette
  • LB, 102/32 nsg hwerhwette
  • LB, 103/23 asg hwerhwettan
  • LB, 21/5f[3] nsg hwerhwette
  • LB, 81/2[4] nsg hwerwe hatte
  • LB, 89/6 asg hwerhwettan
  • LB, 96/5f asg hwerhwettan
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Etymology Last Update: 07.07.2011 18:00

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Images Last Update: 07.07.2011 18:00

? Cucumis sativus L., cucumber, Gurke
Cucumis_sativus_bd4_tafel_089

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.

Ecballium elaterium Rich., squirting cucumber, Eselsgurke
Ecballium_elaterium

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Research Literature

AntFö: Förster, Max. "Die altenglische Glossenhandschrift Plantinus 32 (Antwerpen) und Additional 32246 (London)." Anglia 41 (1917): 94-161.
Br: Logeman, Henri. "Zu Wright-Wülker I, 204-303." Archiv 85 (1890): 316-318.
BW I: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
BW II: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
Dur: Lindheim, B. von. Das Durhamer Pflanzenglossar. Beiträge zur englischen Philologie. 35. Bochum-Langendreer: Pöppinghaus, 1941.
HA: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Herbarium Apuleii Platonici." 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. 1. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 1-325.
LA, Lor: Grattan, John Henry Grafton, and Charles Singer. Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1952.
Laud: Stracke, J. Richard (ed.). The Laud Herbal Glossary. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.
LA: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "[Lacnunga] Recipies." 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. 3. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 2-81.
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.
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Berberich, Hugo, ed. Das Herbarium Apuleii nach einer früh-mittelenglischen Fassung. Anglistische Forschungen 5. Nachdruck Amsterdam, 1966. Heidelberg: Winter, 1902.
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[1]:

Cf. Is. 20,8,3 (DE VASIS COQUINARIIS): CACCABUS ET CUCUMA A SONO FERVORIS COGNOMINATUR.

[2]:

N.: "The lemma stands for CUCUMERIS SILUATICA, as in CGL III 545,63, 546,8".

[3]:

Cockayne reads huerwette.

[4]:

Cf. hwerwe.