| 释义 |
▪ I. † ˈethel, n. Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 1 éðel, œ́ðel, 1–3 eðel, æðel, 3 aðel.
[Common Teut.: OE. œ́ðel, éðel = OS. óðil, OFris. éthel, óthol, OHG. uodil, ON. óðal, f. stem *ôþ-, ablaut-derivative of *aþ-: see athel.]
Ancestral land or estate, patrimony; native land.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. Metr. xxiv. 99 Þis is eallunga min aᵹen cyð eard and eþel. c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke iv. 24 Nan witeᵹa nis andfenge on his eþele [Lindisf. on oeðel his, Rushw. on oedle his.] c1160Hatton Gosp. ibid., On his æðele. c1175Lamb. Hom. 113 We ne maȝen habben þene heouenlichen eþel butan we beon clene from alle sake. c1205Lay. 16289 Min æðel to biwinnen. Ibid. 20201 Þat aðel wes his aȝene. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. I. v. 75 An ‘ethel’, an inherited or otherwise acquired portion of original allotment.
▪ II. † ˈethel
var. form of athel a. Obs.
1. = athel A. 2.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 5 [We] understonden him on ure eðele bede. Ibid. 125 To bisechen..mid eðele worde and edie. a1225Ancr. R. 172 Þeos þrelles beoð hire eðele vif wittes.
2. Comb., as ethelborn a., nobly born (Hist. after OE. phrase æþele ᵹeboren).
1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) II. App. 359 The prejudices of the ethelborn Saxons. 1844Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. x. (1862) 140 An ethel born or noble woman. |