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ana

noun, , , hapax legomenon

Last Update: 03.11.2011 09:44

Meaning Last Update: 27.03.2008 15:11

  • A:
    -, unsolved, ungeklärt
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Comment Last Update: 03.11.2011 10:21

  • Comment on (A): -, unsolved, ungeklärt

    Judging from the context the lemma could be a plant name: nim thanne winberian coddes and galpania and anan and cnuca eall togadere; Cockayne (1961,III,312) suggests a writing error for hunan or arod, both plants have no other occurrences in the PD. Maybe the passage should be read as: nim thanne winberian, coddes 7 galpanan 7 cnuca (Löweneck resolves '7'). Cf. asg. galpanan (PD 43/6; for the L text cf. Löweneck 1896,44/4: GALBANUM), gsg. galpanan (PD 37/6; for the L text cf., Löweneck 1896,36/2: GALBANI). Asg. galpania seems also corrupted, because it only occurs once and has no resemblance in L GALBANUM or GALBANI. Our occurrence 27/13f has no L correspondent. Not recorded in the DOE.

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Occurrence Last Update: 03.11.2011 09:44
  • PD, 27/14 asg(?) anan
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Research Literature

BW II: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
PD: Löweneck, Max (ed.). Peri Didaxeon. Erlanger Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 12. Erlangen: Junge, 1896.
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Peri Didaxeon." 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. 82-143.
Sanborn, Linda (ed.). An Edition of British Library MS. Harley 6258B: Peri Didaxeon. Diss. Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 1983.