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cheeselipn.Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Dutch kaesleb , Old High German kāsilubbi (Middle High German kæseluppe , German regional (Switzerland) chäslub ), probably < the Germanic base of cheese n.1 + the Germanic base of lib n.1Further Germanic parallel. Compare the similarly-formed Middle High German kæselap (German Käselab ) < kæse cheese n.1 + lap rennet (Old High German lab ; German Lab ; < an ablaut variant of the Germanic base of lib n.1). Semantic motivation. The technique of using rennet as a coagulant to produce solid cheese (as opposed to the softer preparations formerly made from sour milk) is thought to have been introduced to Germanic societies from the Mediterranean (see discussion at cheese n.1). The motivation for use of lib n.1 and related words (originally with the senses ‘drug, potion, magic, sorcery’, etc.) to denote this substance in the Germanic languages is uncertain; it has variously been explained as arising from the magical properties with which such coagulants may initially have been thought to have been invested, and as a reflection of the fact that herbal preparations may have been used for this purpose (compare cheese rennet n.). Notes on forms. The β. forms, which do not show the expected palatalization and assibilation of the initial consonant, are unexplained; perhaps compare kirk n., although in this instance there is no possibility of influence from a Scandinavian cognate. With forms in -lop , -lope , etc., (attested from the 16th cent. onwards) perhaps compare lop v.4 the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > rennet eOE (1890) 36/2 Coagolum, ceselyb. OE (2001) I. xlii. 24 Seoð ealle ða [ingredients] in meolce, & hwilum þa meolc geren mid cysbybbe [read cyslybbe]. OE tr. (Vitell.) v. 250 Wif to geeacnigenne haran cyslybb [L. leporis coagulum] feower penega gewæge syle on wine drincan. lOE (Corpus Cambr.) iv. 453 Ne corn ne sceaf, ne flæsc ne flotsmeru, ne cyse ne cyslyb. 1395 in J. C. Atkinson (1881) II. 615 (MED) Pro keslep empt. pro muliere. a1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 666/17 Hec lactis.., cheslypp. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 591/15 Lactis, a chesleb. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 703/44 Hec lactis, a cheslepe. 1534–5 in J. T. Fowler (1898) I. 112 Et sol. pro le kesseloppes..4s. 1562 W. Turner f. 2 As runnynge or chese lope maketh mylke runne together into cruddes. 1685 G. Meriton York-shire Dialogue in 69 I stale a Keslup Nan, fra thy Fatther, Which made me a deel of dainty preaser. 1689 R. Hogarth Cheslop,..diffuses it self in the milk; separating the Heterogenial, and gathering the Homogeneal part, whereof cheese is made. 1801 Orders & Rules Butchers in R. S. Ferguson & W. Nanson (1887) xii. 259 No brother..shall buy any calf, to return the caislip in any State whatever. 1877 E. Peacock Keslop, cheese-rennet. 1912 G. C. Nuttall 36 The ‘Cooslop’ of Yorkshire is derived from ‘keslop’, a local term for the prepared stomach of a calf used in cheese-making. 1963 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday I. ii. 505 Q[uestion]. And when you made cheese, what did you put into the milk?..[Cumberland, Yorkshire] keslop. 1669 J. Worlidge 268 Cheese-lip, the Bag wherein Housewifes prepare and keep their Runnet, or Rennet for their Cheese. 1706 (new ed.) Cheeslip or Cheeselp-bag, (Country-word) the Bag in which Housewives prepare and keep their Rennet for Cheese. Compounds the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > [noun] > ruminant > parts of > stomach > fourth 1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in ii. iv. 115 The Cheeselep-bagge or runnet which is the stomacke bagge of a young sucking calfe. 1706 (new ed.) Cheeslip or Cheeselp-bag, (Country-word) the Bag in which Housewives prepare and keep their Rennet for Cheese. 1725 R. Bradley Cheeselp-bag,..let them take their Bag, wash it also in diverse cold Waters till it be very clean, and put the Curd and salt up into the Bag. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in II. 321 Cheslip-skin, the calf's bag, used in making ‘yerning’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |