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disme

noun, f., n-decl., 3 occ.

Last Update: 27.04.2011 10:47

Old-English: disma, disme, dysma, þysma, disman,

Latin (Machine generated): CASIA, PEREGRINO PULVERE,.I.MUSCO. MUSCUS EST MUS PEREGRINUS,,

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Meaning Last Update: 24.08.2009 10:50

  • A:
    -, musk, Moschus
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Comment Last Update: 27.04.2011 10:46

  • Comment on (A): -, musk, Moschus

    Probably not a plant name. According to Cockayne (1962,III,321) and Grattan / Singer (1951,108, note 9) probably Glebionis segetum (L.) Fourr, corn marigold, Saat Wucherblume. But Schlutter (1907,123f., and 1909,515), who bases his identification on the Prudentius gloss PEREGRINO PULUERE, I.MUSCO.MUSCUS EST MUS PEREGRINUS ƀ is disme (Napier, OEG, 46,3), translates 'musk, Moschus, Bisam'. As Napier notes (4-6,3) the context would favour a plant-name, so possible identifications could be the native Adoxa moschatellina L., moschatel, Moschuskraut, MLG desemkrūt (zu OS desamo 'muscus', cf. Marzell 2000,1,123); or the foreign Amberboa moschata (L.) DC, sweet sultan, Duftende Bisampflanze, West Prussian 'Desem' (cf. Marzell 2000,1,888.); or the native Malva moschata L., musk mallow, Moschus-Malve, Swed. 'desmeros(or), desmablomma' (cf. Marzell 2000,III,31.).

    Also cf. Schlutter (1910,94): "Die durch den Lambeth Psalter gewährleistete form disma (dysma) wird als lateinisch bezeugt durch die Sinonyma Barth, p.13: DISMA EST SPECIES ASMATIS SED DISMA FIT EX SICCITATE, ASMA EX HUMIDITATE." But we have to question if this occurrence is related because it deals with asthma: cf. Dief., s.v.: ASTHMA, ASMA: EST DIFFICULTAS SPIRANDI.

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Occurrences Last Update: 24.08.2009 12:11

  • C 94.8, Prud, Na 46, 3 PEREGRINO PULVERE,.I.MUSCO. MUSCUS EST MUS PEREGRINUS, ƀ is disme
  • LA, 108/11[1] asg disman
  • Ps(I), 44,9 CASIA[2] dysma
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Research Literature

AldVNa: Napier, Arthur Sampson. Old English Glosses. Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series. 11. Reprint of Oxford, Clarendon Press 1900. Hildesheim: Olms, 1969.
BW II: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
DOE: Cameron, Angus, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette di Paolo Healey, et al. (eds.). Dictionary of Old English (A to G). CD-Rom. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for the Dictionary of Old English Project, 2008.
LA, Lor: Grattan, John Henry Grafton, and Charles Singer. Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1952.
LA: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "[Lacnunga] Recipies." In: Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Sience in this Country before the Norman Conquest. Vol. 3. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 2-81.
LB: Leonhardi, Günther. Kleinere angelsächsische Denkmäler I. Bibliothek der ags. Prosa VI. Hamburg: Grand, 1905.
PS (I), PsCa (I): Lindelöf, Uno Lorenz. Der Lambeth-Psalter. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 35/i and 43/iii. 2 vols.. Helsinki: 1909.
Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. 3 vols. with a New Introduction by Charles Singer. Rev. Ed. London: Holland Press, 1961.
Grein, Christian-Wilhelm-Michael (ed.). Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie. Göttingen: Wigand, 1864.
Marzell, Heinrich. Wörterbuch der deutschen Pflanzennamen. Mit Unterstützung der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Bearb. von Heinrich Marzell. Unter Mitw. von Wilhelm Wissmann. Köln: Parkland, 2000.
MS London, British Library, Harley 585.
MS London, Lambeth Palace, 427.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Auct.F.3.6.
Pettit, Edward, (ed. and trans.). Anglo-Saxon Remedies, Charms and Prayers from British Library MS Harley 585: the 'Lacnunga'. Vol. I: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Appendices. Vol. II: Commentary and Bibliography. Mellen Critical Editions and Translations. 6A and 6B. Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Mellen, 2001.
Schlutter, Otto B.. "Anglo-Saxonica." Anglia 30 (1907): 123-134.
Schlutter, Otto B.. "Anglo-Saxonica." Anglia 32 (1909): 503-515.
Schlutter, Otto B.. "Weitere Beiträge zur ae. Wortforschung." Anglia 44 (1910): 94-96.
Storms, Godfrid (ed.). Anglo-Saxon Magic. Reprint of the 1948 ed. published by M. Nijhoff, The Hague. Norwood, Pa: Norwood Editions, 1975.
[1]:

Cont.: Nim cristallan 7 disman 7 sidewaran 7 cassuc 7 finol.

[2]:

Cf. s.v. swētewyrt.