mīl

noun, n., , 2 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 19.07.2011 11:25

Old-English: miil, mil,

Latin (Machine generated): MILIUM,

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Meaning Last Update: 27.02.2010 11:52

  • A: plant: introduced
    Panicum miliaceum L., common millet, Echte Hirse
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Comment Last Update: 19.07.2011 11:23

  • Comment on (A): Panicum miliaceum L., common millet, Echte Hirse

    It is uncertain if the Anglo-Saxons did grow millet. The only evidence so far is the Erce charm (i.e. MCharm 1), where the reading of the respective lines is highly disputed, cf. →hersia; also cf. Hagen (1995,26).

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Occurrences Last Update: 30.03.2010 06:42

  • ClSt, M 117 MILIUM mil
  • Cp, 1338(M 202) MILIUM miil
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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.
ClSt: Stryker, William Garlington. The Latin-Old English Glossary in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Unpubl. diss. Stanford Univ.: 1952.
Cp: Hessels, John Henry. An Eighth-Century Latin Anglo-Saxon Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1890.
Cp: Lindsay, Wallace Martin. The Corpus Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1921.
Cp: Wynn, J. B. An Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Corpus Glosses. Unpubl. Diss. Oxford: 1961.
WW, Prosp, Br: Wright, Thomas. Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies. 2nd ed. by Richard Paul Wülcker. Reprint of the 1884 ed. published by Trübner, London. Vol. 1: Vocabularies. Vol. 2: Indices. New York: Gordon, 1976.
Hagen, Ann. A Second Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food & Drink: Production & Distribution. First publ. 1995. Hock-wold cum Wilton, Norf.: Anglo-Saxon Books, 1995.
Lendinara, Patrizia. "The Glossaries in London, BL, Cotton Cleopatra A. iii." In: _Mittelalterliche volkssprachige Glossen: Internationale Fachkonferenz des Zentrums für Mittelalterstudien der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg 2. bis 4. August 1999._ Ed. Rolf Bergmann, Elvira Glaser, and Claudine Moulin-Fankhänel. Heidelberg: Winter, 2001. 189-215.
MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
Rusche, Philip Guthrie. The Cleopatra Glossaries. Diss. Yale Univ. Yale University, 1996.
Voss, Manfred. "Strykers Edition des alphabetischen Cleopatraglossars: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 13:2 (1988): 123-138.