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单词 nown
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nownadj.pron.

Brit. /nəʊn/, U.S. /noʊn/, Scottish English /non/
Forms:

α. Middle English nawen, Middle English nawene, Middle English nawne, Middle English nouen, Middle English noun, Middle English nowen, Middle English nowun, Middle English (1700s– English regional) nawn, Middle English–1500s noune, Middle English–1600s none, Middle English–1600s nowne, Middle English– nown, 1500s nawnne; Scottish 1800s nyawn (north-eastern), 1800s– nawn, 1800s– nown.

β. late Middle English nawe (northern), late Middle English nowe.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: own adj.
Etymology: < own adj., with metanalysis (see N n.), especially following mine adj., thine pron. Compare nain adj.
Now Scottish and English regional (northern).
A. adj.
1. = own adj. 1a, 1b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > owning > [adjective] > own
owneOE
owneOE
nowna1325
propera1325
nainc1480
ownty-downty1815
a1325 (?c1300) Northern Passion (Cambr. Gg.1.1) 1128 (MED) Alle is at mi nowen red.
c1330 Lai le Freine in Smith Coll. Stud. Mod. Langs. (1929) 10 iii. 3 (MED) Ich haue yȝouen mi nowen dome.
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 1806 (MED) Thowe wenes fore thi wightenez the werlde es thy nowen.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 63 This is to me a perles pyne, To se my nawe dere childe þus boune!
c1475 (a1400) Sir Amadace (Taylor) in J. Robson Three Early Eng. Metrical Romances (1842) 51 (MED) Lette vs leng to-gethir here..As alle thi none hit ware.
a1500 (?c1400) Song of Roland (1880) 638 Wit it thy nown werk.
a1500 tr. Lady Prioress in J. O. Halliwell Select. Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1840) 110 (MED) Than shalle ye have my love, my nawen hony swett.
a1547 J. Redford Moral Play Wit & Sci. (1848) 38 I wylbe bolde wyth my nowne darlyng! Cum now, a bas, my nowne proper sparlyng!
1549 Princess Elizabeth in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 156 You write that I seme to Stande in my none witte in beinge so wel assured of my none selfe.
1616 N. Breton Good & Badde: Effem. Fool in Wks. (1879) II. 13/1 His father's loue, and his mother's nonechild.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 283 Adrian the fourth, our none Countrey-man.
1681 Heraclitus Ridens 6 Dec. 2/1 Upon further examination I found 'um to be the Ape's nown Poetry.
1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1754) No. 8. 38 Twenty chose rather to be fondled up, and Call'd mother's nown boys.
1790 R. Tyler Contrast i. i Maria, like a good girl, to keep herself constant to her nown true-love, avoided company.
1805 A. A. Opie Adeline Mowbray III. i. 51 The mulatto..exclaimed, ‘I buy dem, and pay for dem wid mine nown money.’
1827 Gude Wallace in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1886) III. vi. No. 157. D.i ‘I wish we had our king,’ quo Gude Wallace, ‘An ilka true Scotsman had his nawn.’
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. 89/1 In some sentences is would seem as if an initial vowel merely robbed the preceding word of an ending consonant, as in ‘Thou's my nawn bairn;’ ‘Thou's a nawn pet’.
1960 New Shetlander No. 54. 15 I med him wi me nown haands.
2. Without preceding possessive, expressing tenderness or affection. Cf. own adj. 2a. Obsolete.
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1606 N. Breton Poste with Packet Madde Lett. (new ed.) II. sig. H2 Nowne Loue, and kinde soule, I thank thee.
1665 J. Phillips Typhon iv. 117 That childe is wise, nown father knows.
1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers i. i. 6 Some wise Lecture from nown Daddy.
1701 T. D'Urfey Bath iv. i. 33 I don't care one Farthing, so nown dear Charlee do but perk up again.
1736 H. Carey Honest Yorkshire-man 20 I loves her better nor I do nown Father.
1792 J. Cobb Pirates iii. 25 No smirking and squeezing, ‘nown dear’, and all that.
B. pron.
= own pron. 4. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1467–8 Rolls of Parl. V. 572/1 Y purpose to lyve uppon my nowne.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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