foxes glofa
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]foxes glōfa m
- foxglove
- c. 9th century, Bald's Leechbook, published in Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest (1865, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green), edited and with translations by Oswald Cockayne, volume I, page 266
- Wið oman, ġenim þysse wyrte lēaf þe man [s]trycnos manicos ⁊ oðrum naman foxes glōfa nemneþ...
- For inflammatory sores, take leaves of this plant, known as στρύχνος μανικός, also named with another name "foxglove"... [As Cockayne points out, this identification is incorrect.]
- c. 9th century, Bald's Leechbook, published in Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest (1865, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green), edited and with translations by Oswald Cockayne, volume I, page 266
Inflection
[edit]Declension of foxes glōfa (weak)
Descendants
[edit]- Middle English: foxesglove, foxglove
- English: foxglove
Further reading
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “foxes glofa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.