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单词 an-earth
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an-earthadv.

Forms: Old English an eorþan, Old English an eorðan, Middle English anerþe, Middle English an erþe, Middle English an vrþe, Middle English an eorþe, Middle English an orþe.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: an, earth n.1
Etymology: < an, variant of on prep. + earth n.1 (compare discussion at a prep.1 and also an- prefix1). With sense 1 compare on earth at earth n.1 Phrases 2.In Old English originally a prepositional phrase with regular inflection of the second element; hence in Old English, and still sometimes in Middle English, written as two words. (Word division in Old English and Middle English examples frequently reflects editorial choices of modern editors of texts, rather than the practice of the manuscripts.)
Obsolete.
1. With reference to position: on earth; in the earth. Also: in existence, in the world; cf. on earth at earth n.1 Phrases 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > [adverb] > situation
here971
under the sunOE
on (the) grounda1000
an-earthOE
on (the) moulda1350
OE Devil's Account of Next World (Tiber.) in Neuphilol. Mitteilungen (1972) 73 367 Þeah þe him ealle streamas hunige fleowan and him þanne an eorþan næfre nære ænig wiþerbreota [read wiþerbreoca] on þisan life.
a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 159 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 55 Nis no tonge anerþe [emended in ed. to an erþe], ne non eyen list, þat mai telle þe ioie þat was maket of þe to nist.
a1350 Holy Cross (Ashm.) 72 in R. Morris Legends Holy Rood (1871) 24 (MED) He sei an vaire welle Of wan alle þe wateres þat beþ anerþe [c1300 Laud on eorþe, a1325 Corpus Cambr. an eorþe] comeþ.
a1450 St. Faith (Bodl.) l. 94 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1889) 82 325 (MED) In wel chame-ful deþe, he deyde for vs an erþe her.
2. With reference to motion: to earth; into the earth.
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the world > the earth > [adverb] > towards earth
an-earthOE
OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) xxviii. 227 Þonne astrecce he hine eadmodlice eallum lichaman an eorðan ætforan þam rædinggrade, and bidde him æt eallum forgifnysse.
c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Harl.) l. 598 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 511 Þer he was ibroȝt an vrþe, & also ischryned is.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9083 God anerþe com to bringe vs out of pyne.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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