desman

The story

1. Hebrew · derived fromבושם
2. Late Latin · derived frombisamum“musk”
3. Old Saxon · derived fromdesamo
4. Middle Low German · derived fromdēsem
5. Swedish · derived fromdesmanråtta“muskrat”
6. German · borrowed fromDesman
7. French · borrowed fromdesman
8. English todaydesman

From French desman, German Desman, from Swedish desmanråtta (“muskrat”), from desman (“musk”, older also desma, desme), from Middle Low German dēsem, from Old Saxon desamo, alteration of *besamo (cf. Old High German bisamo), from Late Latin bisamum (“musk”), from Hebrew בושם (bāśām, bōśem). Doublet of balm and balsam.

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