paper (?)

noun, , , hapax legomenon

Type: plant-related

Last Update: 25.07.2011 09:28

Old-English: taper,

Latin (Machine generated): PAPIRUS,

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Meaning Last Update: 25.07.2011 09:26

  • A: plant-related
    ? -, taper, Docht
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Comment Last Update: 20.04.2010 09:14

  • Comment on (A): ? -, taper, Docht

    Cf. Quinn's note: "This is the only occurrencs of paper 'paper' in OE. Since PAPYRUS is often glosssd taper 'taper', it is not unlikely that the gloss paper is an error for taper."

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Occurrence Last Update: 12.05.2010 10:04

  • ClQu, 187,13 PAPIRUS paper
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Etymology Last Update: 25.07.2011 09:28

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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.
ClQu: Quinn, John Joseph. The Minor Latin-Old English Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Diss Stanford U. 1956.
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.
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 London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
Rusche, Philip Guthrie. The Cleopatra Glossaries. Diss. Yale Univ. Yale University, 1996.
Voss, Manfred. "Quinns Edition der kleineren Cleopatraglossare: Corrigenda und Addenda." AAA 14:2 (1989): 127-139.