03-08-2026, 08:02 AM
(02-08-2026, 05:49 PM)JustAnotherTheory wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well, almost. It's an instance of "boxleber", but to me the interesting part is that the author chose to write the genitive with an "x". To my knowledge, "boxleber" is as rare as "poxleber".
Anyway, it is from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (early 1500s), Switzerland.
My reading: "... oder mit eynem guten Syrop / Sommer boxleber / es koste was es wolle / es sol uns kein gelt rewen".
Source: Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek -- 4 Th H 1735
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As to poxleber: The German sound /ks/ can be spelled in different ways, x, chs, gs, cks. Since orthographie was not yet standardized in the 15th century there were various and individual kinds of spelling.
The scribe of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. decided to write poxleber. Here the sound shift of the Upper German region b > p is apparent. It doesn't make much sense to discuss this
word over and over again. I explained the use in medieval medicin in my study You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
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