单词 | samhain |
释义 | Samhainn. The first day of November, celebrated by the ancient Celts as a festival marking the beginning of winter and of the new year according to their calendar; All Saints' Day or Hallowmass. Also attributive. Cf. Beltane n.The Old Irish form samain is used only with reference to the ancient Celts. ‘Samhain Eve’ (quot. 1904) and ‘the night of Samhain’ (quot. 1910) are different renderings of Irish oidhche Shamhna ‘Halloween’. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year Candlemas1014 May Day1267 All Souls' Dayc1300 midsummer evena1400 firstc1400 Beltane1424 midsummer eve1426 quarter day1435 Beltane1456 mid-Sundaya1475 madding-day1568 Lord Mayor's day1591 Barnaby bright1595 Lammas-eve1597 All Saints' Night1607 Handsel Monday1635 distaff's day1648 long Barnabya1657 St. Valentine's eve1671 leet-day1690 All Fools' Day1702 Boxing Day1743 April Fool's Day1748 Royal Oak Day1759 box day1765 Oak-apple Day1802 All Souls' Eve1805 mischief night1830 Shick-shack Day1847 chalk-back day1851 call night1864 Nut-Monday1867 Arbor Day1872 April Fool's1873 Labour Day1884 Martinmas Sunday1885 call day1886 Samhain1888 Juneteenth1890 Mother's Day1890 Father's Day1908 Thinking Day1927 Punkie night1931 Tweede Nuwejaar1947 1888 J. Rhys Lect. Origin & Growth Relig. illustr. by Celtic Heathendom v. 518 The Samhain feast..was, like the Greek Apaturia, partly devoted to business..otherwise the feast, which occupied, not only Samain or the first of November, but also the three days before and the three days after it, was given up to the usual games. 1904 W. B. Yeats Stories of Red Hanrahan 1 The barn where some of the men were sitting on Samhain Eve. 1910 J. M. Synge Deirdre of Sorrows i. 5 And it raining since the night of Samhain. 1917 J. M. Clark Vocab. Anglo-Irish vii. 27 Irish folk-lore has kept alive words of such classic associations as..Samhain and shanahus..which mean..‘All-Hallowtide’ (Nov. 1) and ‘a friendly chat’ respectively. 1949 J. A. MacCulloch Celtic & Scandinavian Relig. i. viii. 58 Samhain, which means ‘summer end’, naturally pointed to the fact that the powers of blight, typified by winter, were beginning their reign. But it may have been partly a harvest festival. 1957 W. R. Kermack Sc. Highlands 153 At Samhain (Hallowe'en, 31st October, the beginning of Winter) the Lewismen made libation to the sea-god Shony, who could send them plenty of seaweed to manure their fields. 1958 T. G. E. Powell Celts iii. 117 At Samain, sacrifices were certainly offered although no material descriptions have survived. 1968 New Larousse Encycl. Mythol. 236/1 The [Celtic] year began on what is now the first of November with the feast of Samain... The ordinary people felt less sanguine about the possibility that on the eve of Samain the people of the síde left their domain and wandered in the world of man. 1970 Q. Rev. Guernsey Soc. 26 60 These four were the feast of Beltainn the great Sungod in May; mid-summer, mid-August..and Samhainn or Hallowmass (November 1). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1888 |
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