请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 awestell
释义

awestellprep.

Forms: pre-1700 a westell, pre-1700 a wostell, pre-1700 avastell, pre-1700 awestill.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: a-west prep., an element of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Apparently < a-west prep. + an element of uncertain origin (perhaps compare later westlins adv.). Compare earlier a-eastell prep. Compare also Older Scots wostell (adjective) western (in an apparently isolated attestation in quot. 1602 at a-eastell prep.) and later wessel adv.
Scottish. Obsolete.
At, in, or to the west of. Cf. a-west prep., a-eastell prep.
ΚΠ
a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 98v in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Westell He deit a westell Dunbertane in Cardros.
c1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 275 He..beleiwit suirlie that he had beine within Scoittis ground ane gret way quhan he was nocht half ane myll awestill Berwik.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
<
prep.a1538
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/2/5 13:16:37