printscald-hulas
noun,
pl.,
a-decl.,
hapax legomenon
Type: plant
Last Update: 12.08.2011 12:28
Meaning Last Update: 26.10.2008 18:06
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A: plant
? -, reed, Schilf
Comment Last Update: 03.08.2010 10:43
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Comment on (A): ? -, reed, Schilf
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.
Cp:
Hessels, John Henry.
An Eighth-Century Latin Anglo-Saxon Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1890.
Cp:
Lindsay, Wallace Martin.
The Corpus Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1921.
Cp:
Wynn, J. B.
An Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Corpus Glosses. Unpubl. Diss. Oxford: 1961.
Ep, Erf:
Pheifer, J.D. (ed.).
Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
HEW:
Holthausen, Ferdinand.
Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 3., unveränd. Aufl.. Heidelberg: Winter, 1974.
MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144.
Schlutter, Otto B..
"Weitere Beiträge zur ae. Wortforschung." Anglia 44 (1910): 94-96.
[1]:
Scaldhulas is probably a contamination of scaldþyflas and sondhyllas.
[2]:
Wynn emends to PAPILIUS and suggests (1961,1517) "Perhaps a variant of CL PAPYRUS, the papyrus plant." On PAPYRUS cf. s.v. ēarisc, risc, also cf. eolhsecg.
Scald (= sceald 'shallow, seicht') refers to the habitat of the plant in shallow waters, cf. Schlutter 1910,319) and Pheifer (1974, n.58). According to Schlutter (1910,320f.) -hulas is a variant of -dhulas, and therfore he assumes an original form scealdþūl, which he relates to "ostfries. dūla 'rohr, schilfrohr, rohrkolben'". HEW (s.v. hūl) relates to hūl (meaning 'hollow, hohl'). Neither þūl nor hūl are recorded anywhere else, so it might be possible that -hulas is a corrupted -þyflas (cf. →scald-þy̅fel)[1], another evidence for this could be the matching ending of scaldhulas and scaldþyflas.