A note on Old English forpǣran and Middle English forpēren

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angličtina

Original language name

A note on Old English forpǣran and Middle English forpēren

Original language description

"The Old English verb forpǣran ‘to destroy, ruin’ occurs fourteen times in the Dictionary of Old English Corpus, and is primarily attested in the writings of Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 955–c. 1010).1 A search in this corpus shows that eleven of the fourteen occurrences are indeed found in the works of Ælfric, with the remaining three occurrences appearing in an Ælfrician quotation in an anonymous homily (HomS 28),2 another anonymous homily for Rogationtide (HomS 41 [Baz-Cr]), and the Old English translation of Gregory’s Pastoral Care (CP).3nnAlthough the DOE entry does not include a reference to a related lemma in the Middle English Dictionary, the latter dictionary does feature a Middle English verb which is similar to the Old English lemma both in form and meaning: forpēren ‘to impair greatly, to destroy’.4 It would appear from its entry in the MED that this verb is even rarer than Old English forpǣran, since it has only one quotation from the South English Legendary, in a manuscript from c. 1300: ‘Louerd, muche is þi miʒhte. For, þat þou isaued habbe wolt, noþing ne schal furpere’.5 Another instance of this verb in the South English Legendary was identified by Autumn Joy Stanley Simmons ‘in the Legend of St. Margaret, eds. D’Evelyn and Mill EETS S.English Legendary, vol.235.-I.295/100–01: “Understond of þi nobleie hou gent þou ert and swete/And reu on þi faire bodi þat þou ne forpere noȝt”’.6 This quotation should be added to the MED entry for forpēren, since the spelling of the prefix with <o>, i.e., <forpere>, offers an alternative to <furpere>, the spelling of the verb in the quotation which is currently found in the MED.7"

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

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Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

"Notes and Queries"

ISSN

0029-3970

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

2023

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

3

Pages from-to

1-3

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