orfgebitt

noun, n., , 2 occ.

Type: plant-product

Last Update: 22.07.2011 08:34

Old-English: orfgebitt, orfgebiþe,

Latin (Machine generated): ERBITUM, HERBITUM,

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Meaning Last Update: 23.10.2008 06:32

  • A: plant-product
    -, cattle food, Viehfutter
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Comment Last Update: 22.07.2011 08:25

  • Comment on (A): -, cattle food, Viehfutter

    Cf. Meritt (1954,111). We assume that the Gloss is not only influenced by Is. 17,7,55: HERBITUM VOCAVERUNT PASTORES EO QUOD VICE HERBAE PRAEBEATUR PECORIBUS, UBI PASCUA DESUNT but also by the form of the L lemma because the meaning 'fodder, Futter' is not recorded for OE gebitt (cf. BT, s.v.).

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Occurrences Last Update: 23.04.2010 09:35

  • AntK, 145,7 HERBITUM orfgebitt
  • Laud, 643 ERBITUM orfgebiþe
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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.
BT: Bosworth, Joseph. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Ed. by Thomas Northcote Toller. Reprint 1973. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
Laud: Stracke, J. Richard (ed.). The Laud Herbal Glossary. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.
Meritt, Herbert Dean. Fact and Lore about Old English words. Stanford studies in language and literature. 13. New York: AMS P., 1954.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Laud Misc. 567.