I discovered that it is useful to reread threads with own propositions and propositions of the other members. InYou are not allowed to view links.
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Login to view. for "balsam". I remember I was inspired with that find, but disappointed as we couldn't find adequate connection of that word with the next "vbren". It is strange as only two days before Aga Tentakulus mentioned that the next word can be "verbrennt" (You are not allowed to view links.
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First of all, "palsen" is not an unique version for "balsam" with "b" mutated into "p". There are also You are not allowed to view links.
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Login to view., both German related. Then, we see "so nim" ("so nimm" - so add) - verb, II p., imperative, written without doubbling "mm" in the end. Thus, why "vbren" can't be "vbrenn"? It could be just "brenn" (burn) or "zubrenn" (burn out, burn off) - verb, II p., imperative, but it also can be "verbrenn" (burn off), written with one "n" and shortened to "
vbren". Anyway, relation of the balsam to its burning would be coherent.
Eberhard Werner Happel writes in the "Mundus mirabilis tripartitus...":
Quote:Item, man giesse ein wenig Balsam in die Hand, und halte die gegen der Sonnen Schein aufgehebt; Ist der Balsam gerecht, so brennet die Sonne dermassen an die Hand, daß man es kaum erleyden kan. Wann man ein Tröpfflein an eine Messer Spitte thut, und hält es ans Feuer brennet der Balsam, so ist er gut.Auch, wer ein wenig Balsam in Geiß Milch thut, in einer Schaalen; Ist er gerecht so gerinnet die Milch gleich, als wann man Kase darauß machen wolte. Ein Tropsflein Balsam in eine Schaale mit Wasser gethan; Ist er gut, so bleibet das Wasser hell, wird es aber trübe, so ist der Balsam nicht just. (Item, pour a little balm into your hand and hold it up against the sun's rays; If the balm is right, the sun burns your hand so that you can hardly bear it. If you put a droplet on the tip of a knife and hold it to the fire, the balm burns, then it is good. Also, one who puts a little balsam in goat's milk in a bowl; If it is true, the milk coagulates as if you wanted to make cheese out of it.)
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Login to view. really means " to hold it up to the sun's rays", but it intrigues.