† easlen.

Forms: Also Old English ysle, Middle English hisseles, huysseles, Middle English iselle, isyl, ysyle, 1500s Scottish isill, 1700s–1800s Scottish aizle.

Etymology: Old English ysle (apparently weak feminine), cognate with Old Norse usli weak masculine, embers, perhaps < Aryan root *eus to burn, whence Latin ūrĕre. The modern forms easle (17th cent. /eːz(ə)l/), aizle, are phonetically anomalous.

dialect.

Hot ashes or cinders; see quot.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > ashes or cinders

easlea1000

ashc1000

coalOE

fire-izelsa1325

cinderc1400

sawdusta1873

OE Genesis 2555 Bearwas wurdon to axan and to yslan.

a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 146 Fauilla, ysle.

c1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in T. Wright Voc. 171 De falemetches, from hiseles [v.r. huysseles].

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 266 Isyl of fyre, fauilla.

c1483 Cath. Angl. Aiselle, favilla, or a sperke.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) x. i. 135 Have syttyn still amang the assys cauld, And lattyr isillys of thar kynd cuntre.

1691 J. Ray N. Country Words Pref. 4 (E.D.S.) We in Essex use Easles for the hot embers (or as it were burning coals) of straw only.

1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 157 She fuff't her pipe wi' sic a lunt..an aizle brunt Her braw, new, worset apron.

1874 Notes & Queries 10 Oct. 290 So as to receive and enclose the falling aizle, as well as the wax or tallow of the candle.

Derivatives

† easle-cake n. Obsolete a cake baked in the ashes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake baked in ashes

easle-cakec1440

shanty-cake1848

turf-cake1863

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 261 Isylkake, or chesekake, or eykake bakyne vndyr askys.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	easle
释义	† easlen. Forms: Also Old English ysle, Middle English hisseles, huysseles, Middle English iselle, isyl, ysyle, 1500s Scottish isill, 1700s–1800s Scottish aizle. Etymology: Old English ysle (apparently weak feminine), cognate with Old Norse usli weak masculine, embers, perhaps < Aryan root eus to burn, whence Latin ūrĕre. The modern forms easle* (17th cent. /eːz(ə)l/), aizle, are phonetically anomalous. dialect. Hot ashes or cinders; see quot. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > ashes or cinders easlea1000 ashc1000 coalOE fire-izelsa1325 cinderc1400 sawdusta1873 OE Genesis 2555 Bearwas wurdon to axan and to yslan. a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 146 Fauilla, ysle. c1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in T. Wright Voc. 171 De falemetches, from hiseles [v.r. huysseles]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 266 Isyl of fyre, fauilla. c1483 Cath. Angl. Aiselle, favilla, or a sperke. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) x. i. 135 Have syttyn still amang the assys cauld, And lattyr isillys of thar kynd cuntre. 1691 J. Ray N. Country Words Pref. 4 (E.D.S.) We in Essex use Easles for the hot embers (or as it were burning coals) of straw only. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 157 She fuff't her pipe wi' sic a lunt..an aizle brunt Her braw, new, worset apron. 1874 Notes & Queries 10 Oct. 290 So as to receive and enclose the falling aizle, as well as the wax or tallow of the candle. Derivatives † easle-cake n. Obsolete a cake baked in the ashes. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake baked in ashes easle-cakec1440 shanty-cake1848 turf-cake1863 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 261 Isylkake, or chesekake, or eykake bakyne vndyr askys. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1000
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