mete-swamm

noun, m., a-decl., hapax legomenon

Type: plant

Last Update: 19.07.2011 11:19

Old-English: meteswam,

Latin (Machine generated): FUNGUS,

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Reference Last Update: 27.12.2022 10:44

Meaning Last Update: 19.07.2011 11:16

  • A: plant
    -, mushroom, edible, Pilz, essbar
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Comment Last Update: 19.07.2011 11:17

  • Comment on (A): -, mushroom, edible, Pilz, essbar

    According to Kindschi the gloss is related to Is. 17,10,18: FUNGI, QUOD ARIDI IGNEM ACCEPTUM CONCIPIANT; φώσ ENIM IGNIS EST; UNDE ET ESCA ['food, Speise'; cf. for example WW 739,12: HEG ESCA mete] VULGO DICITUR [...] TUBERUM TUMOR TERRAE PRODIT.

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Occurrence Last Update: 29.03.2010 09:39

  • AntK, 112,9 FUNGUS metteswam UEL TUBER
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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.
Hagen, Ann. A Second Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food & Drink: Production & Distribution. First publ. 1995. Hock-wold cum Wilton, Norf.: Anglo-Saxon Books, 1995.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.