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noun, , , hapax legomenon

Type: plant-product

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Meaning Last Update: 04.05.2010 09:50

  • A: plant-product: native
    -, pig-food, Schweinefutter
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Comment Last Update: 04.05.2010 09:53

  • Comment on (A): -, pig-food, Schweinefutter

    In the Middle Ages the fruit of Quercus L. is commonly used as fodder for pigs.

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Occurrence Last Update: 17.05.2010 10:18

  • AntFö, 101,17 GLANX. GLANDIS[1] picbred
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Research Literature

AntFö: Förster, Max. "Die altenglische Glossenhandschrift Plantinus 32 (Antwerpen) und Additional 32246 (London)." Anglia 41 (1917): 94-161.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
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.
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Meritt (1954,140) compares AhdGl 3,336,24: GLANS FRUCTUS QUERCUS CIBUS PORCORUM .I. eichela.