单词 | anglish |
释义 | Anglishadj. Now rare. = Anglian adj. 1. Also occasionally more generally: = †English adj. 1 (obsolete).† East Anglish adj. Obsolete rare = East Anglian adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Germanic people > ancient Germanic peoples > [adjective] > Angles Anglish1659 Angliana1711 Anglic1789 1659 T. Palmer Little View of Old World 107 In the time of the Saxons, the Inhabitants of this Land were called Angles or Anglishmen, and now English-men, and the Brittains Welch-men. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. v. 210 Then Laf, one of their Leaders, gatherd before Winter a great Army of Northumbrian and East-Anglish Danes. 1855 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 22 38 Properly English (as distinguished from merely Anglish or Anglo-Saxon) writers. 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xix. ix. 636 Of Jutish or Anglish type. 1891 Science 11 Dec. 332/2 The earlier maps are necessarily devoted to showing the growth and later amalgamation of the various Anglish and Saxon kingdoms. 1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. 286 Gothic is the oldest form of Germanic of which we possess documents of some consequence, and it is very likely that had we any Anglish or Saxon records from the 4th century A.D., we should find forms just as elaborate as the Gothic ones. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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