[Sca-cooks] aisel was New 'invention' of medieval food?
Sharon Palmer
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
Fri Aug 19 17:14:35 PDT 2011
>(cider vinegar was called aisel).
From OED, nothing in this definition says the word is specific to
cider vinegar.
eisell, n.
Etymology: < Old French aisil, aissil < late Latin *ac?tillum,
diminutive of ac?tum vinegar. Obs.
Vinegar.
c1160 Hatton Gosp. Mark xv. 36 Fylde ane spunge mid eisile.
c1160 Hatton Gosp. John xix. 29 ?a stod an fet full aisiles.
?c1225 (1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C. 6) (1972) 296 ?is
eisil??urch fulle? mi Pine.
a1240 Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 283 Nu beden ha mi leof?aisille.
a1300 Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter lxviii. 22 [lxix. 21]
In mi thriste with aysile dranke ?ai me.
138. Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 133 Crist tasted eysel;
and ?ei nolden non but goode wynes.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. viii. 134 In this moone is made Aisel squillyne.
c1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 1884 Loke thy wyn be not eysel.
1528 T. Paynell tr. Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni
sig. Liiijv, Sommer sauce shulde be verieuse, eysell, or vineger.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum, Ysell, acetum.
1557 Primer, XV Oos F iv, I beseche thee for the bitternesse of
the Aisell and Galle.
1604 Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 273 Woo't drinke vp Esill, eate a Cr
It strikes me that this is very close to the German "essig"
Ranvaig
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