单词 | homeling |
释义 | homelingn. 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). ΘΚΠ 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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