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lēac

noun, n., a-decl., 34 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 19.11.2010 06:54

Old-English: laec, leac, lec, leoc, leac-, lec-, leh-,

Latin (Machine generated): ACERBUM CEPE, ALGIUM, ALIGUM, ALIUM, ALLIUM, AMBILA, ANBILA, CAMILEMA (?), CARTILAGO,

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References Last Update: 26.12.2022 18:22

Meanings Last Update: 22.12.2009 13:38

  • A: plant: native Several native species.
    Allium L., leek, a specis of ~, Lauch, eine Art von ~
  • A: plant
    -, gardenplant, Gartenpflanze
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Comment Last Update: 22.08.2011 12:15

  • Comment on (A): Allium L., leek, a specis of ~, Lauch, eine Art von ~

    In the LB the meaning is most probably Allium sativum L. →gār-lēac because in two occurrences lēac refers to gārlēac: 70/34 and 11/22 (here it also refers to →crop-lēac - Allium porrum L.); cf. Banham 1990, 186ff.

    AMBILA, ANBILA is not clear but cf. Brown 1969, II,331; CARTILAGO cf. s.vv. →grundsopa and →hēafod

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Occurrences Last Update: 19.11.2010 06:54

  • AntK, 72,13[1] CAMILEMA (?) leaces sex
  • Br,WW, 295,22 ANBILA leac
  • C 28, Na 56, 370[2] ALGIUM leac
  • ClQu, 40,14 AMBILA leac
  • ClQu, 69,1 CARTILAGO leoces heafod
  • ClSt, A 352 ALIUM leac
  • ClSt, A 496 AMBILA leac
  • ClSt, C 340 CARTILAGO leaces heafod
  • Cp, 164 (A 545) AMBILA laec
  • D 25, f.145r, col.2/5 AMBILA lec
  • Dur, 27 AMBILA lec
  • Ep, 64 AMBILA laec
  • Erf, 64 AMBILA laec
  • HA, 152/16[3] gsg hyre [=sin-grene] wyrttruma ys synewealt 7 sweart eac on þære mycele þe leaces
  • HA, 260/2[4] dsg heo [=tunsincg wyrt] hafaþ leaf leace gelice.
  • HA, 290/18[5] nsg scordias...hafaþ swæc swylce leac 7 heo eac forþy scordios gecweden ys.
  • HA, 310/7[6] nsg PORRUM NIGRUM... s...bradran leafon þonne leac
  • LA, 114/4 asg leac
  • Laud, 65 AMBILA leac
  • LB, 11/22 instr sg. genim cropleac 7 garleac begea emfela, gecnuwa uel tosomne, genim win 7 ... fearres geallan begea emfela, gemeng wiþ þy leace.
  • LB, 24/24 nasg leac
  • LB, 32/4[7] nasg leac
  • LB, 70/34 nasg genim garleaces þreo heafdu 7 grene rudan twa handfulle ..., gebeat þæt leac 7 þa rudan
  • LB, 80/41[8] gsg brade leaces
  • PD, 19/12[9] nasg Nim forcorfen leac and cnuca hyt and wring þæt wos of anne sticcan fulne
  • PD, 21/18[10] gsg leaces sæd
  • PD, 23/11[11] nasg Nim leac and cnuca hit and wring þat [wos] of
  • PD, 31/1 nasg leac
  • Prud, 419 ACERBUM CEPE auur[12] lec
  • Prud, 421 ALLIUM lec
  • Æ, (C) 310,8 ALGIUM[13] leac
  • Æ, (F) 310,8 ALIGUM leac
  • Æ, (O) 310,8 ALGIUM leac
  • Æ, 310,8 ALLIUM leac
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Etymology Last Update: 19.11.2010 06:54

  • Etymology: Gmc Etymology-Comment:

    < Gmc *lauka-; cf. OHG louh, MHG louch, OS lok, ON laukr

  • Word-Formation: simplex
  • Word-Formation-Comment: -
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External Reference Last Update: 01.06.2007 12:39

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Research Literature

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Br: Logeman, Henri. "Zu Wright-Wülker I, 204-303." Archiv 85 (1890): 316-318.
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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.
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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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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.
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[1]:

In BTS the gloss is recorded s.v. læce "leech, Arzt" and can therefore be identifyed as lǣces seax "knife of the leech, Messer des Arztes"; I cannot verify the gloss CAMILEMA and the meaing "paring knife, Gemüsemesser" cannot be ruled out completely, therefore the gloss is included here.

[2]:

N.: "ALGIUM for ALLIUM [...] cp. WW 270,27 UNGIO for UNIO."

[3]:

Ch. XLIX

[4]:

Ch. CXL

[5]:

Ch. CLXIII; Cf. Georges (s.v.): "SCORDION [...] eine Pflanze mit Knoblauchsgeruch, [...] Teucrion scordium L."

[6]:

Ch. CLXXVII

[7]:

Cf. s.v. cīpelēac.

[8]:

The form brade leaces is a gsg. of brādelēac; therefore not brades.

[9]:

L text (Löweneck 1896,18/2f): PORRI NON PLANTATI SUCCI CALICEM I.

[10]:

L text (Löweneck 1896,20/6): PORRI SEMEN.

[11]:

L text (Löweneck 1896,22/8): PORRI SUCCUM.

[12]:

= āfor "bitter".

[13]:

Gillingham 661 (1981, 194): Etym XVII.x.14: ALIUM DICTUM QUOD OLEAT.