foxes glofa
Old English
Etymology
From fox + glōf.
Noun
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
Declension of foxes glofa (weak)
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | foxes glōfa | foxes glōfan |
| accusative | foxes glōfan | foxes glōfan |
| genitive | foxes glōfan | foxes glōfena |
| dative | foxes glōfan | foxes glōfum |
Descendants
- Middle English: foxesglove, foxglove
- English: foxglove
Further reading
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “foxes glofa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.