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mergelle
noun,
f.,
n-decl.,
hapax legomenon
Type: plant
Last Update: 22.09.2010 12:11
References Last Update: 23.11.2022 00:23
Meaning Last Update: 27.02.2010 08:24
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A: plant: native
? Gentiana pneumonanthe L., marsh gentian, Lungen-Enzian
Comment Last Update: 19.07.2011 10:13
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Comment on (A): ? Gentiana pneumonanthe L., marsh gentian, Lungen-Enzian
Occurrence Last Update: 29.03.2010 09:33
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Etymology Last Update: 22.09.2010 12:11
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? Gentiana pneumonanthe L., marsh gentian, Lungen-Enzian |
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Botanical-Information: stylised plate Source: →reference-information
Fitch, Walter Hood.
Illustrations of the British Flora: London: Reeve, 1924.
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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.
LA, Lor:
Grattan, John Henry Grafton, and Charles Singer.
Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1952.
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.
LB:
Leonhardi, Günther.
Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
Grein, Christian-Wilhelm-Michael (ed.).
Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie. Göttingen: Wigand, 1864.
MS London, British Library, Harley 585.
Pettit, Edward, (ed. and trans.).
Anglo-Saxon Remedies, Charms and Prayers from British Library MS Harley 585: the 'Lacnunga'. Vol. I: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Appendices. Vol. II: Commentary and Bibliography. Mellen Critical Editions and Translations. 6A and 6B. Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Mellen, 2001.
Storms, Godfrid (ed.).
Anglo-Saxon Magic. Reprint of the 1948 ed. published by M. Nijhoff, The Hague. Norwood, Pa: Norwood Editions, 1975.
Pettit (2001,LXIII,238) notes that this plant name might be related to the meargealla of the LB (cf. →mersc-mear-gealla).
Etymology: cf. Grattan / Singer (1951,216): "In the main text there is a single instance of the eAngl. æ by smoothing [...] and also one instance of the later Angl. e-form of this vowel: mergelle (<∗maerh- <∗mæorh-) 147a". Because this plant name's etymology is far from secured this statement has to be treated accordingly.