单词 | ethel |
释义 | etheln. Now rare (historical in later use). Formerly: †a person's home country or native land, a homeland (obsolete). Also (in later use only): a person's ancestral land or estate, a patrimony. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > homeland or native land kithc888 etheleOE erdOE homeOE motherOE fatherlandc1275 countrya1300 soila1400 countrywarda1425 motherland1565 mother country1567 patrie1581 native1604 homelanda1627 home country1707 patria1707 old country1751 the (old) sod1812 home birth1846 Vaterland1852 old sod1863 motherland1895 Bongo Bongo1911 sireland1922 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited etheleOE heritagea1225 ereward-richea1325 reversiona1325 patrimony1357 succession1382 inheriteson1470 heredity?c1550 inheritage1557 long acre1608 relict1726 post-obit1812 hand-me-down1909 eOE Metres of Boethius (2009) xxiv. 50 Ðis is eallunga min agen cyð, eard and eðel. OE Widsith 96 He me lond forgeaf, mines fæder eþel, frea Myrginga. OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) iv. 24 Nan witega nis andfenge on his eþele [OE Lindisf. on oeðel his, OE Rushw. on oedle his, c1200 Hatton on hys æðele; L. in patria sua]. a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 61 (MED) Þet is ure eðele and ure riche, Mid him to wunen in heouene riche. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10080 Þat aðel [c1300 Otho lond] wes his aȝene. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8129 Min æðel to biwinnen. 1849 J. M. Kemble Saxons in Eng. I. 132 He has land within the limits of the community, the ethel or hereditary estate. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. v. 75 An ‘ethel’, an inherited or otherwise acquired portion of original allotment. 1927 E. Power tr. P. Boissonnade Life & Work in Medieval Europe i. i. 11 The whole formed the patrimony.., which might comprise 30 to 100 acres... This was..the ethel of the Anglo-Saxons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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