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单词 homeling
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homelingn.

Brit. /ˈhəʊmlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmlɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: home n.1, -ling suffix1.
Etymology: < home n.1 + -ling suffix1, originally translating classical Latin indigena indigene n. Compare earlier comeling n.
Now historical and rare.
An original or native inhabitant; an indigenous person or thing. Also appositive with the sense ‘that is a homeling; native, indigenous’. In later use chiefly contrasted with comeling n., with reference to Britons as distinguished from Anglo-Saxons (cf. quot. 1577).
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the world > people > nations > native people > [adjective]
inbornc1000
theodiscc1000
i-cundeOE
landisha1300
kindc1325
denizen1483
kindly born1483
native1488
naturally born1523
naturala1533
home-bred?1560
natural1574
home-born1577
homeling1577
natural-born1583
land-born1589
self-bred1590
self-born1597
indigene1598
land-breda1599
vernaculous1606
kindly1609
inbred1625
terrigenist1631
native-born1645
indigenous1646
indigenary1651
indigenital1656
aboriginal1698
own-born1699
indigenal1725
homegrown1737
terrigenous1769
indigenate1775
the world > people > nations > native people > [noun] > person
sonOE
landsmanc1000
natural1509
native1535
homeling1577
indigena1591
originary1594
home-born1600
birth child1609
inbred1625
naturalist1631
autochthon1646
naturalizanta1652
breedling1663
indigene1664
indigenal1722
child (son, etc.) of the soil1814
native-born1814
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. iii. f. 3/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The Saxons [ed. 1587 these new comlings]..began to molest the homelings (for so I finde ye word Indigena, to be englished in an old booke that I haue, wherin Aduena is translated also an homeling).
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxii. viii. 200 The homeling inhabitants cal it Achileos-dromon.
c1612 W. Strachey Hist. Trav. Virginia (1953) i. x. 127 A kynd of wood-pidgion we see in the wintertyme, and of them such numbers, as I should drawe (from our Homelings here such who haue seene peradventure scarse one more then in the markett) the Credit of my Relation concerning all the other in question, if I should expresse what extended flockes..I haue seene in one day.
a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 152 Which (Homelings) from this little World we name.
1857 R. C. Trench On Some Deficiencies in our Eng. Dict. 29 One writer will still deal with a word as a stranger..while another, who wrote earlier, had already treated it as an homeling.
1901 C. S. Fearenside Matriculation Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) ii. 24 It is probable that..a considerable intermixture of blood took place between the homeling Britons and the comeling English.
1912 Catholic Encycl. XV. 532/1 The Anglican, Saxon, and Jutish ‘comelings’ having driven the earlier ‘homelings’ into the hill-country of the west.., the names Wales and Welsh were applied to the ancient people and the land they retained.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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