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单词 mirkning
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mirkningn.

Brit. /ˈməːk(ə)nɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmərk(ə)nɪŋ/, Scottish English /ˈmərk(ə)nɪŋ/, /ˈmərk(ə)nɪn/
Forms: 1700s 1900s– mirkning, 1800s mirkinnen, 1800s mirknin', 1900s– mirkenan, 1900s– mirkenin, 1900s– mirknen, 1900s– mirknin, 1900s– murknin'.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mirken v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: Either the reflex of a borrowing < early Scandinavian (compare Norwegian myrkning, Swedish mörkning , Danish mørkning , all < the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic myrkna mirken v. + the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic -ing -ing suffix1), or < mirken v. (although this is not attested after the 16th cent. in Older Scots) + -ing suffix1. In Orkney and Shetland use < the unattested Norn reflex of the early Scandinavian word represented by the Scandinavian forms listed above.
Scottish (now Orkney and Shetland).
Late twilight, dusk.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall
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twilighting1387
crepusculum1398
crepusculec1400
darkc1400
twilight1412
sky1515
twinlightc1532
day-going?1552
cockshut1592
shutting1598
blind man's holiday1599
candle-lighting1605
gropsing1606
nightfall1612
dusk1622
torchlighta1656
candlelight1663
crepuscle1665
shut1667
mock-shade1669
close1696
duskish1696
glooma1699
setting1699
dimmit1746
to-fall of the day or night1748
darklins1767
even-close1781
mirkning1790
gloaming-shot1793
darkening1814
bat-flying time1818
gloama1821
between-light1821
settle1822
dayfall1823
evenfall1825
onfall1825
owl-hoot1832
glooming1842
darkfall1884
smokefall1936
dusk-light1937
1790 J. Fisher Poems Var. Subj. 102 Ae simmer e'en baith wale an' trig, About the mirkning.
1877 G. Stewart Shetland Fireside Tales 6 I aye keep a sherp e' aboot me in da mirkinnen.
1976 R. Bulter Shaela 21 I staand oot mesel idda mirknin, An da wind oobs aboot da yerd daek.
1994 C. De Luca Voes & Sounds 4 I da mirknen, a mön-broch; i da mornin a barmin sea.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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