Allium_porrum_dsc_2229

por

noun, n. (m.?), a-decl., 8 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 29.07.2011 18:45

Old-English: por, porr,

Latin (Machine generated): PORRUM,

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References Last Update: 19.10.2022 16:24

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Meaning Last Update: 13.07.2010 09:39

  • B: plant: introduced cf. [LINKTO brāde-lēac_]
    Allium porrum L., leek, Winter-Lauch
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Comment Last Update: 29.07.2011 18:45

  • Comment on (B): Allium porrum L., leek, Winter-Lauch

    Cf. the etymological analysis for [LINKTO crop-lēac].

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Occurrences Last Update: 10.09.2010 06:45

  • ClQu, 40,2 PORRUM por
  • Laud, 1140 PORRUM por
  • LB, 14/14 nasg por
  • LB, 27/4 gsg porres
  • LB, 56/25 nasg por
  • LB, 84/4 nasg por
  • LB, 85/22 nasg porr
  • LB, 9/18 nasg por
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Etymology Last Update: 29.07.2011 18:45

  • Etymology: L loan-word Etymology-Comment:

    L porrum; OHG pforro, OIcel pors

  • Word-Formation: simplex
  • Word-Formation-Comment: -
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External Reference Last Update: 27.05.2007 12:40

Image Last Update: 29.07.2011 18:45

Allium porrum L., leek, Winter-Lauch

Allium_porrum_dsc_2229

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: →reference-information

Krauss, Johann Carl. Afbeeldingen der artseny-gewassen met dervelver Nederduitsche en Latynsche beschryvingen. 4. deel. Amsterdam: J. C. Sepp en Zoon, 1800.

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Research Literature

BW I: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 1. Bern, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1975.
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.
Laud: Stracke, J. Richard (ed.). The Laud Herbal Glossary. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.
LB: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Leech Book." 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. 2. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Longman [et. al.], 1961. 1-360.
LB: Leonhardi, Günther. Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
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.
Deegan, Marilyn. A Critical Edition of MS. B.L. Royal 12.D.XVII: Bald's 'Leechbook'. Diss. Univ. of Manchester. 1988.
Hankins, Freda Richards. Bald's 'Leechbook' Reconsidered. Diss. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1993.
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, Royal 12 D.xvii.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A.iii.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Laud Misc. 567.
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.
Wright, Cyril E. (ed.). Bald's Leechbook. Early English manuscripts in facsimile. 5. Kopenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1955.