Middle English Dictionary Entry
fenkel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | fenkel n. Also fenecel, finkel. |
| Etymology | ML fēn(i)culum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. fenel.
1.
(a) Fennel; red ~; (b) fenkel rot (rut), fennel root; ~ sed; etc.
Associated quotations
a
- a1300 Hrl.978 Vocab.(Hrl 978)556 : Feniculum: fanuil, fenecel.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)13 : Saworay and fenkel.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)42 : Fenkel in Soppes. Take blades of Fenkel, shrede hem not to smale, do hem to seeþ in water and oile and oynons mynced þerwith.
- a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)83/5 : Hues maratrum, feniculus idem: ge. fenoyl, ae. fenkele.
- a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)106/24 : Dicunt quod maratrum est semen feniculi tantum gall. fenoyl, ae. fenicle.
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)51 : For evel and werke in bledder: tak ache, percel, and fenkel [etc.].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)155 : Fenkylle or fenelle: Feniculum.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)156 : Fenkylle or fenelle seede: Maratrum.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)9/21 : To hafe clene eghne..take rose floures and fenkell..temper þam al sammen with hony..& anoynte thyn eghne þer-with.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)55/15 : Take þe jvs of red fenkel..it wyll breke þe web in onys eye.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)139/1 : For þe cankyr in þe mowthe..take fynkyll and alwm.
b
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)7.360 : A ferthyng-worth of fynkelsede [vrr. fenkel, fenel, fynel] for fastinge-daies.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)12/5 : Take þe rute of fenkell..sethe þam in water & wasche thyn eghne þer-with.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)32/38 : For þe calde dropsy. Tak þe rute of fynkall.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)138/18 : To don a man swetyn. Stampe rotis of fenkell ryȝt small, and drynk þe jows þer-of fastyng.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Stockh 10.90)297/94 : For eyne bote..þe jus of fenkel-rote.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Stockh 10.90)305/426 : To þe cold dropesye..Take and wasche clene þe fenkele-rote [etc.].