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单词 earth house
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earth housen.

Brit. /ˈəːθ haʊs/, U.S. /ˈərθ ˌhaʊs/
Forms: see earth n.1 and house n.1
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Dutch erdhūs underground dwelling (Dutch aardhuis house made of earth), Old Saxon erthhūs underground dwelling (Middle Low German ērthūs ), Old High German erdhūs cave, underground dwelling (German Erdhaus house made of earth), Old Icelandic jarðhús underground dwelling or passage, Old Swedish iordhhus underground dwelling (Swedish jordhus underground dwelling, house made of earth) < the Germanic base of earth n.1 + the Germanic base of house n.1
1.
a. An underground dwelling, basement, or chamber; = souterrain n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > cave or underground dwelling
earth houseeOE
cavec1220
bikea1522
mattamore1695
subterranean1714
subterrane1759
yurt1780
weem1792
subterrene1793
ice cave1810
gibber-gunyah1847
dugout1855
fogou1864
abri1887
pit house1907
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. lxxii. 146 Romane..worhton eorþhus for þære lyfte wylme.
OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 241 Apogeum uel subterraneum, eorðhus.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1191 Seouen ȝer wes Astrild i þissen eorð-huse [c1300 Otho erþhuse].
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2469 In on erþe hous þai lay.
a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 121 Thay drew ham into Erthe-hous many.
1531 Court Bk. Barony of Carnwath f. 66v He held..ane ȝong kow & draif hyr furth of the erd hous to Newbiggin eftir that scho was pvt vnder fence.
1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 154 There are several little Stone-houses, built under Ground, called Earth-houses, which served to hide a few People and their Goods in time of War.
1893 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 6 83 In an interesting treatise entitled the ‘Underground Life’, Mr. David MacRitchie gives an account of earth houses or ‘weems’..of Scotland.
1918 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics X. 6/2 The so-called ‘Picts' houses’ or ‘earth houses’—low underground passages terminating in one or more chambers.
1978 A. Ritchie & G. Ritchie Anc. Monuments Orkney 15 It is possible that some at least of the Orcadian earth-houses belong to this period after the abandonment of brochs.
2008 Compact Traveller (Nexis) 6 July 10 Follow the signposts..through a gate to nose around the Castlelaw Hill Fort and earth house or cellar.
b. A dwelling made of earth.
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1853 T. Parker Ten Serm. Relig. 330 Those things are to be regarded as the work of children, who have their snow-houses in winter, their earth-houses in summer.
1904 R. S. Hichens Garden of Allah (1905) ii. 140 The shadow of tall, windowless earth houses.
1946 P. Aller & D. Aller Build your own Adobe i. 9 They think earth attracts moisture and therefore an earth house must be damp.
1998 Mugarnas 15 152/2 In many Anatolian towns, flat-roofed earth houses coexisted with the Ottoman type.
2005 J. M. Bang Ecovillages 111 Some friends of mine made a small earth house... They..traced out the run of the walls..and put lumps of earth on top of each other till they had walls the right height.
2. figurative. A grave. Obsolete.Quot. 1839 is a translation of quot. c1200.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun]
buriels854
througheOE
burianOE
graveOE
lairc1000
lair-stowc1000
lich-restc1000
pitOE
grass-bedOE
buriness1175
earth housec1200
sepulchrec1200
tombc1300
lakec1320
buriala1325
monumenta1325
burying-place1382
resting placea1387
sepulturea1387
beda1400
earth-beda1400
longhousea1400
laystow1452
lying1480
delfa1500
worms' kitchen?a1500
bier1513
laystall1527
funeral?a1534
lay-bed1541
restall1557
cellarc1560
burying-grave1599
pit-hole1602
urn1607
cell1609
hearse1610
polyandrum1627
requietory1631
burial-place1633
mortuary1654
narrow cell1686
ground-sweat1699
sacred place1728
narrow house1792
plot1852
narrow bed1854
c1200 (?OE) Grave (1890) l. 15 Ladlic is þet eorðhus and grim inne to wunien.
1839 H. W. Longfellow Voices of Night (1843) 115 Loathsome is that earth-house, And grim within to dwell.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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