ōstig

adjective, , , hapax legomenon

Type: plant-related

Last Update: 22.07.2011 08:58

Meaning Last Update: 22.07.2011 08:55

  • A: plant-related
    -, knotty, knotig
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Comment Last Update: 22.07.2011 08:55

  • Comment on (A): -, knotty, knotig

    Translates L NODOSA in Is. 5,27,18: UIRGA EST, SI CERTE NODOSA VEL ACULEATA, SCORPIO RECTISSIMO NOMINE. Cf. s.v. →gerd. On OE ōst 'knot, lump, protuberance; Knoten, Klumpen, Auswuchs' (OHG ast) cf. HEW,s.v. Other occurrences of OE ōst, ōstig, ōstiht: Erf 683a; Cp 1411(N 152); ClSt N 93; N 94; ClQu 133,1; ClQu 196,5; additionally there are numerous occurrences in AldVNa and AldVGo.

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Occurrence Last Update: 23.04.2010 09:47

  • AntK, 69,1 SCORPIO ostig gyrd UEL tindig
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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.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.