andatre ?

noun, , , hapax legomenon

Last Update: 05.04.2011 07:32

Old-English: andarsi,

Latin (Machine generated): CAPPARIS ?,

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Meaning Last Update: 31.03.2009 08:26

  • A:
    -, unsolved, ungeklärt
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Comment Last Update: 04.11.2011 10:03

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

    Bierbaumer reads andarsi in the MS. For the discussion of the L lemma, CAPPARIS, 'caper-bush', cf.wudu-bind. Recorded in the DOE s.v. '? andatre'.

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Occurrence Last Update: 21.04.2009 15:36

  • D 11, f.2v, Rosier CAPPARIS ? andatre
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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.
Meritt, Herbert Dean. "Old English Glosses, Mostly Dry Point." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 60 (1961): 441-450.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Otho E.i.
Voss, Manfred. "Altenglische Glossen aus MS Brit. Library, Cotton Otho E.i." AAA 22:2 (1996): 179-203.