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Plantago_lanceolata

lǣce-wyrt

noun, f., i-decl., 13 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 11.07.2011 09:01

Old-English: læcewyrt, lecevyrt, lecewvrt, leciuuyrt, leciuyrt, leciwyrt,

Latin (Machine generated): LICANIS STEPHANICE, LYCANIS STEFANTICE, LYCHANIS STEPHANICE, QUINQUENERINA, QUINQUENERUIA,

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Reference Last Update: 27.12.2022 07:17

Meanings Last Update: 22.12.2009 07:43

  • A: plant: native
    Plantago lanceolata L., ribwort plantain, Spitzwegerich
  • B: plant: foreign
    ? Silene coronaria (L.) Clairv., crown pink, Kronen-Lichtnelke
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Comments Last Update: 11.07.2011 08:59

  • Comment on (A): Plantago lanceolata L., ribwort plantain, Spitzwegerich

    Identification based on L QUINQUENERUIA, which normally denotes Teucrium chamaedrys L., wall gamander, Gamander (cf. Pheifer, n.849; André 1985, s.v.), but it is also a well documented name for P. lanceolata in OE and OHG, cf. s.v. →ribbe and Marzell (2000,3,809).

    Etymology: lit. 'medicinal herb, Heilkraut', a suitable name for a widely-used plant, cf. Marzell (1967,239): "Jedenfalls ist der Wegerich ein uraltes Heilmittel und es spricht vieles dafür, daß er bei uns nicht in den Kreis der einfach aus der Antike übernommenen Pflanzen gehört, sondern eine germanische Heilpflanze ist. Läkeblad = Heilblatt [...] ist sein alter nordischer Name."

  • Comment on (B): ? Silene coronaria (L.) Clairv., crown pink, Kronen-Lichtnelke

    Identification based on L LICHANIS STEFANICE, cf. Lindheim's note 223 (1941,57). The text refers to Dioscorides III,114 (Berendes 1902,331), which is a description of S. coronaria. We cannot see any relation between lǣcewyrt and this Mediterranean plant so we suspect the OE name to be a 'guess' of the translator based on the (although little) similarity with the form LICANIS; also cf. Biggam's analysis (1997,187-190) of the OE translation of the HA entry.

    Etymology: There is no obvious connection to S. coranaria.

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Occurrences Last Update: 19.11.2010 06:34

  • C 36, Gough S.279 und Bierbaumer 1977, S.118 LYCANIS STEFANTICE læcewyrt
  • ClQu, 41,10 QUINQUENERINA[1] læcewyrt
  • Cp, 1724(Q 50) QUINQUENERUIA leciwyrt
  • Dur, 223 LYCHANIS STEPHANICE lecevyrt
  • Ep, 849 QUINQUENERUIA leciuuyrt
  • Erf, 849 QUINQUENERUIA leciuyrt
  • HA, CXXXIII, 248/15[2] nsg Læce wyrt
  • HA, CXXXIII, 248/17 asg þe man LICHANIS STEFANICE 7 oþrum naman læcewyrt nemneþ
  • HA, CXXXIII, 50/12 nsg LYCHAMIS STEPHANICE. ƀ ys læce wyrt
  • Laud, 896 LICANIS STEPHANICE lecewvrt
  • LB, 24/24 nasg læcewyrt
  • LB, 30/14 nasg læcewyrt
  • LB, 43/30 nasg læcewyrt
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Etymology Last Update: 11.07.2011 09:01

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Images Last Update: 11.07.2011 09:01

Plantago lanceolata L., ribwort plantain, Spitzwegerich
Silene_coronaria_batava-1865
: Kops, Jan, P. M. E. Gevers Deijnoot, and F. A. Hartsen. Flora Batava of Afbeelding en Beschrijving van Nederlandsche Gevassen. Sepp. 1865. .

Plantago lanceolata L., ribwort plantain, Spitzwegerich
Plantago_lanceolata

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: →reference-information

Fitch, Walter Hood. Illustrations of the British Flora: London: Reeve, 1924.

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Research Literature

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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.
ClQu: Quinn, John Joseph. The Minor Latin-Old English Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Diss Stanford U. 1956.
Cp: Hessels, John Henry. An Eighth-Century Latin Anglo-Saxon Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1890.
Cp: Lindsay, Wallace Martin. The Corpus Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1921.
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Dioscurides: Berendes, Julius, ed. Des Pedanios Dioskorides aus Anazarbos Arzneimittellehre in fünf Büchern. Übersetzt und mit Erklärungen versehen. Stuttgart: Enke, 1902.
Dur: Lindheim, B. von. Das Durhamer Pflanzenglossar. Beiträge zur englischen Philologie. 35. Bochum-Langendreer: Pöppinghaus, 1941.
Ep, Erf: Pheifer, J.D. (ed.). Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
Ep: Brown, Alan Kelsey. The Epinal Glossary edited with Critical Commentary of the Vocabulary. Vol. I: Edition. Vol. II: Commentary. Diss., Stanford University. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1969.
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LB: Leonhardi, Günther. Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
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[1]:

N.: "WW prints QUINQUENERVIA." Rusche 1996, 681: "Read QUINQUENERUIA".

[2]:

MS B: lechewurt by a later hand.