Old-English:
lasar, laser,
Latin (Machine generated):
GUTTAM SILPHIN, OPIUM QUIRINAICUM, SILFIU.I.,
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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.
Laud:
Stracke, J. Richard (ed.).
The Laud Herbal Glossary. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Laud Misc. 567.
The interpretamanta are forms of L LASER, resinous sap of the plant LASERPITIUM (cf. →ladsar); they have been added because they could be regarded as OE words.