单词 | day name |
释义 | > as lemmasday name day name n. Brit. /ˈdeɪ neɪm/ , U.S. /ˈdeɪ ˌneɪm/ , West African English /ˈde ˌnem/ (a) the name of a day in any of various calendar systems; (b) (in West African traditional naming, and that of communities of West African descent) a name given to a child reflecting the day of the week on which he or she was born.ΚΠ 1826 Mirror of Lit. 8 July 11/2 Cooba! Quamina! Coobenha! Juba! Mimba! me call you by your born-day name to please you!] 1844 H. Browne Ordo Sæclorum 525 Mr. Greswell sets out with a confused fancy that these day-names are somehow so necessarily connected with the tropical year, that the Julian year has no right to them. 1905 Amer. Anthropologist 7 551/1 At birth comes the day-name,..eight days later the child is given a second name by the father. 1966 Proc. Royal Anthropol. Inst. No. 1966. 260/1 Moreover, a matricula of the town dated 1655..lists men and women with Maya day names. 2010 C. M. Cole in C. M. Canning & T. Postlewait Representing Past iv. 271 He carefully wrote down some Twi words I taught him, including his ‘day name’ in Akan, ‘Kwabena’. < as lemmas |
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