printmæsten-trēow
noun,
n.,
a-decl.,
hapax legomenon
Type: plant
Last Update: 18.07.2011 09:11
Meanings Last Update: 01.02.2010 13:51
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B: plant: native Several native species.
Quercus L., oak, a species of ~, Eiche, eine Art von ~ -
A: plant
-, tree yielding mast, Baum, der Mastfutter liefert
Comment Last Update: 18.07.2011 09:10
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Comment on (A): -, tree yielding mast, Baum, der Mastfutter liefert
Occurrence Last Update: 22.11.2010 06:54
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Research Literature
AntK:
Kindschi, Lowell.
The Latin-Old English Glossaries in Planton-Moretus Manuscript 43 and British Museum Manuscript Additional 32,246. Unpubl. diss. Stanford University: 1955.
BW III:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
Is:
Isidorus Hispalensis.
Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Etymologiarum sive Originum Libri XX. Recogn. brevique adnot. crit. instruxit W. M. Lindsay. 1: Libros I - X continens. 2: Libros XI - XX continens. repr. 1911. (Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis) Oxonii: Typogr. Clarendoniano, 1966.
Banham, Debby.
The Knowledge and Uses of Food Plants in Anglo-Saxon England. Diss. Cambridge University. Index to Theses. 40. Cambridge: 1990.
Britten, James, and Robert Holland.
A Dictionary of English Plant-Names. London: Trübner, 1886.
Grube, Frank W..
"Old English Vegetable Terms." Northwest Missouri State College Studies 27/5 (1963): 3-30.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.
The L lemma denotes the mediterranean Quercus suber L, corc oak, Korkeiche and according to Kindschi the gloss refers to Is. 17,7,27: SUBERIES ARBOR, EX QUA VALIDISSIMUS CORTEX NATATORIUS EXTRAHITUR. ET IDEO APPELLATA SUBERIES, EO QUOD FRUCTUS EIUS SUES EDUNT. PORCORUM ENIM SUNT ALIMENTA, NON HOMINUM. In autumn oaks (→āc; and several other fruit bearing woodland trees) were used as naturally growing pig's mast, cf., for example, Britten / Holland (1886, s.v. mast), or Grube (1933,24).