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单词 earthdin
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earthdinn.

Brit. /ˈəːθdɪn/, U.S. /ˈərθˌdɪn/
Forms: see earth n.1 and din n.1; also Middle English erdene, Middle English erdyn, Middle English erthedoun; Scottish pre-1700 erddyng, pre-1700 erdine, pre-1700 erding, pre-1700 erdyn.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: earth n.1, din n.1
Etymology: < earth n.1 + din n.1In form erthedoun with second element perhaps influenced by down adv.Older Scots forms with final -ng probably show reinterpretation of the second element as showing ding v.1
Now rare and archaic.
An earthquake; earthquake activity.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > convulsion > [noun] > earthquake
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OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1060 On þisan gere wæs micel eorðdyne on Translatione sancti Martini.
a1253 M. Paris Abbreviatio Chronicorum Angliæ (1869) 299 Terraemotus..Erthdune.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1108 Oc siðen loth wente ut of hine, Brende it ðhunder, sanc it erðe-dine.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20499 An erth-din þar com þat scok All thinges.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 141 Erthe qwake, or erþe dene [1499 Pynson erthdyn, a1500 King's Cambr. erdyn, or erde qwave].
c1480 (a1400) St. Margaret l. 590 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 64 Sone wes herde a fellone bere Of thonir and of erdine.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 117 An Erthe dyn, or an Erthe qvake.
?1537 Hugh of Caumpedene tr. Hist. Kyng Boccus sig. xijv What thyng may it euer make Erth dyn yt doth the erth quake.
?a1600 (a1500) Sc. Troy Bk. (Cambr.) l. 455 in C. Horstmann Barbour's Legendensammlung (1882) II. 225 Scho walde horribile erdinge ger be, Ande hydwisly wp raise the see.
1838 J. Bosworth Dict. Anglo-Saxon Lang. Eorð-dyn, earth din, an earthquake.
1880 A. J. Ryan in Poems (1886) 241 I'm a note in the song for the beautiful sea, A song whose grand accents no earth-din may sever.
1904 L. G. Meushaw Plea of Toiler i. 13 The earthdin is but a seismal shock of a rheumatic condition of the diversified stratas.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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