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Origanum_vulgare_bd4_tafel_054

organe

noun, f., n-decl., 18 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 12.08.2011 14:36

Old-English: organa, organe, orgene,

Latin (Machine generated): ORGANUM, ORIGANUM, POLEIUM, SERPILLI, SERPILLUS,

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Meanings Last Update: 09.04.2010 10:55

  • A: plant: native
    Origanum vulgare L., marjoram, Gewöhnlicher Dost
  • B: plant: foreign
    Origanum majorana L., marjoram, Majoran
  • C: plant: native
    Thymus serpyllum L., breckland thyme, Sand-Thymian
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Comments Last Update: 22.07.2011 08:38

  • Comment on (A): Origanum vulgare L., marjoram, Gewöhnlicher Dost

    Identification based on L ORGANUM, ORIGANUM, PULEGIA MAIOR.

  • Comment on (B): Origanum majorana L., marjoram, Majoran

    Identification based on L ORGANUM, ORIGANUM, PULEGIA MAIOR.

  • Comment on (C): Thymus serpyllum L., breckland thyme, Sand-Thymian

    Identification based on L SERPILLUS, SERPULLUM. Pettit (2001,glossary) suggests as possible thyme species: Thymus praecox subsp. brittanicus (Ronn.) Holub, woolly creeping thyme, Filziger Niedergestreckter Thymian. He also states that the gender of the OE plant name is 'm' (2001,VX,48).

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Occurrences Last Update: 25.11.2010 06:14

  • C 28, Na 56, 420 ORGANUM organe
  • C 36, Gough S.278 SERPILLI organe
  • C 71.1, Meritt 66, 6[1] POLEIUM organa
  • Dur, 259 ORGANUM organe
  • Dur, 304 SERPILLUS organe UEL bradelec
  • HA, 216/1[2] nsg Organe
  • HA, 216/3[3] asg þe man SERPILLUM 7 oþrum naman organe nemneþ
  • HA, 236/11[4] asg þe man ORIGANUM 7 oþrum naman þam gelice organan nemneþ
  • HA, 236/15[5] asg organan
  • HA, 236/9[6] nsg Organe
  • HA, 282/24[7] nsg organe
  • HA, 42/8[8] nsg SERPILLUS. ƀ is organa[9]
  • HA, 48/5[10] nsg ORIGANUM ƀ is organe
  • LA, 102/1 nsg organa
  • Laud, 1089 ORIGANUM organe UEL wurmele .I. PULEGIUM
  • Laud, 1310 SERPILLUS orgene
  • PD, 11/14[11] gsg organe
  • Æ, 311,12 ORGANUM organe
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Images Last Update: 12.08.2011 14:36

Origanum vulgare L., marjoram, Gewöhnlicher Dost
Origanum_vulgare_bd4_tafel_054

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: →reference-information

Thomé, Otto Wilhelm. Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. In 4 Mappen ; 531 Tafeln in naturgetreuen Farben mit 668 Pflanzenarten. Leipzip: Teubner, 1938.

Origanum majorana L., marjoram, Majoran
Origanum_majorana

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: www.botanical.com/botanical...

Thymus serpyllum L., breckland thyme, Sand-Thymian
Thymus_serpyllum_bd4_tafel_055

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: →reference-information

Thomé, Otto Wilhelm. Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. In 4 Mappen ; 531 Tafeln in naturgetreuen Farben mit 668 Pflanzenarten. Leipzip: Teubner, 1938.

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Research Literature

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BW II: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
Dur: Lindheim, B. von. Das Durhamer Pflanzenglossar. Beiträge zur englischen Philologie. 35. Bochum-Langendreer: Pöppinghaus, 1941.
HA: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Herbarium Apuleii Platonici." 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. 1. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 1-325.
LA, Lor: Grattan, John Henry Grafton, and Charles Singer. Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1952.
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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.
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Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Peri Didaxeon." 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. 82-143.
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[1]:

OEG 36,4 in BTC (s.v.) has to be amended to OEG 66,6.

[2]:

Ch. CI.

[3]:

Ch. CI.

[4]:

Ch. CXXIV.

[5]:

Ch. CXXIV.

[6]:

Ch. CXXIV.

[7]:

Ch. CLVI; cont.: syle drincan on wine oþþe on wætere þe ær wære organe oþþe dweorge dwosle on gewylled.

[8]:

Ch. CI.

[9]:

MS BH: organe.

[10]:

Ch. CXXIV.

[11]:

Cont.: organe ane handfulle; L text (Löweneck 1896,10/6): ORIGANI MANIPULUM.