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mearu

adjective, , , hapax legomenon

Type: plant-related

Last Update: 04.03.2010 11:24

Meaning Last Update: 16.02.2010 10:39

  • A: plant-related
    -, tender, zart
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Comment Last Update: 16.02.2010 10:40

  • Comment on (A): -, tender, zart

    Cf. our footnote.

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Occurrence Last Update: 04.03.2010 11:24
  • Prud, 148 PAMPINEO mfarxm[1]
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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.
Prud: Meritt, Herbert Dean. The Old English Prudentius Glosses at Boulogne-sur-Mer. Stanford studies in language and literature ; 16. Stanford: AMS P., 1967.
MS Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliotheque Municipale, 189.
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N.: "Read, mearum. The glossator has taken PAMPINEO "leafy, budding", in the sense of "tender"; the word mearu is applied to the fresh growth of plants".