Planting the Seeds of Knowledge: An Inventory of Old English Plant Names
1st Edition
Published on 14. December 2018
448 pages
978-3-8316-7426-8 (ISBN)
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Old English had a large number of plant names: more than a thousand are attested. These are listed here, including parts of plants and products of plants. In the main list the following kinds of information are provided: the spelling (including spelling variants), the literal meaning, the etymology (native word or loan-word) and word-formation, equivalents in Modern English, in the Linnéan terminology, and in German, as well as the older Latin names. Cross-references to etymologically or semantically related names are also given. It is furthermore noted if the etymology or the identification of the plant is unclear. The main list is made more accessible and is supplemented by several indices and supplementary lists; these collect, for example, those Old English plant names that survive in Modern English, Old English names for fruits and products of plants, tree names, the Latin names according to the Linnéan system, the Modern English equivalents, and the Modern German equivalents.
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Hans Sauer | Elisabeth Kubaschewski
Planting the Seeds of Knowledge: An Inventory of Old English Plant Names
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