sibsum

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Old English

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Etymology

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From sibb +‎ -sum. Cognate with Old High German sibbisam, sippisam (peaceful) (sippi +‎ -sam).[1][2]

Adjective

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sibsum

  1. peacable; peaceful, friendly
    • c. 1000, Aldred the Scribe, Rituale ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (Gloss), republished in: 1839, The Publications of the Surtees Society, Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis: Nunc Primum Typis Mandatum, London: [] , Edinburgh: [] , page 39, line 19.
      [With superscript indicating gloss]
      DaSel nobis,vs, Domine,driht' quesumus,ve bid' utꝥte etæc mundimiddang'es cursuserning pacificussibsvm nobisvs tuoðinvm ordineendebrednisse dignatur,sie girihtad, et ecclesiacirca tuaðin tranþuillasmyltlicvm devotioneoest letetur,sie glædedo, purð D'
      Grant us, O Lord, we pray, that the peaceful course of the world may be made worthy of your order, and that your church may be blessed by peaceful devotion, through God.

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sib-sum”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. ^ Gerhard Köbler (2014), "sippisam* 1", in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, 6th edition