Epinal-Erfurt Glossary Modifications

[Alan Sondheim]

Epinal-Erfurt Glossary Modifications


axungia		rysil
Erfurt:
axungia		risil
Axis? Axona? Ricin (poisonous gas). Also spelled rysel.

pudor		scamu
Erfurt:
pufor		scoma
Scomatose? Shame and honor and full of grace and modesty.
The pudor of pudenda. Pud = pudor entity, pudor _thing._
A knot here. Pudeo: to be ashamed. Think of _shameful thing._
The feeling of shame, bashfulness, modesty, decency, honor.
Immediately following: puella.

pus		uuorsm
Erfurt:
pus		uuorsin
Corrupt matter = antibiotic = cleansing. Bitterness, galling:
"It's galling to me." = It's irritating (corrupted, twitching).

chaos		duolma
Erfurt:
chos		dualma
Variant chaus. dwolma <-> dwelian = wander, gedwol = error.
Dwelling. "prima confusio omnium rerum." Ab nihilo: To dwell =
to dwell in confusion,in error. Upwelling: habitat loss.

palpitans	brocdaettendi
Erfurt:
palpitans	brogdaethendi
Palpito = to move quickly, tremble, throb. Used of persons in
death-agony. Palpitation, jouissance.

talpa		uuandaeuuiorpae
Erfurt:
talpa		uuondaeuuerpe
Talpa = mole. When Erfurt is not given, assume Epinal.

abortus		misbyrd
Erfurt:
abortus		misbyrd
Abortion. Misbyrdo = congenital deformity.
Byrd = birth? = missed birth:
a. bypassed birth
b. sadness as in "missing you" in relation to birth.
The corrupt matter of missing birth = corrupt matter of birth.

occipitium = snecca
Variants occiput, occipui.
The back of the head, related to "to begin." Beginning with
the back of the head = birth. See pudor.

balus		isaern fetor
Erfurt:
balus		isaern fetor
Bolas, fetters? But bolus: throw, what is caught at a throw.
Fetor, fetid: Cheese, pus, abortion. uuorsm = worse, as in
"worse and worse."

cornicula	chyae
Erfurt:
cornicula	ciae
Crow. Corvid = cornucopia. Cornicen = horn-blower.
Cornicor = to caw like a crow. Cornu = horn = lur. Corvus =
raven or rook. Cornicula = small crow.

In part from Pheifer, Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossay,
Oxford 1974, 1998. This is the oldest old English text "of any length."

In part from Simpson, Cassell's Latin Dictionary, 1968.