bird-aloneadj.

Brit.

/ˌbəːdəˈləʊn/, U.S.

/ˌbərdəˈloʊn/, Scottish English

/ˌbɪrdəˈlon/, Irish English

/ˌbəːrdəˈloʊn/

Forms: Scottish pre-1700 1700s– burd-alane, pre-1700 1800s burd-alone, pre-1700 1800s– bird-alane, 1800s bird-lane, 1800s burd-allane; Irish English (chiefly northern) 1900s– bird-alone.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bird n., alone adj.

Etymology: Apparently < bird n. + alone adj., probably with allusion to Psalm 102:7 ‘like a sparrow alone upon the house tops’.Compare the following slightly earlier instance of the noun phrase bird alone in comparable metaphorical use:1567 Kingis Complaint (single sheet) Sen..I am left as Byrd allone.In later use the first element is sometimes apprehended as showing burd n. (compare quot. 1870).

Scottish and Irish English. In later use also literary and archaic.

Of a person or thing: entirely alone, solitary.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adjective]

oneeOE

onlepyOE

onlyOE

alonec1175

single1340

soleinc1381

solitaire1382

singularc1384

solec1400

oddc1480

alonelya1513

uncompanieda1547

a-high-lone1565

bird-alone1572

self-one1602

insociate1606

unmated1615

lonesome1647

solo1727

uncompanioned1809

unfellowed1887

Pat Malone1937

1572 P. R. Lament. Lady Scotl. sig. a.vii^v Tak ȝe ane, We must not leif the vther bird alane.

c1650 Gallant Grahames (single sheet) Nathaniel Gordon, both stout and keen, Newtoun Gordon, Burd alone.

1717 A. Ramsay Elegy Lucky Wood in Poems (1800) I. 228 She's dead and gane, Left us and Willie burd alane, To bleer and greet.

a1800 Sir Roland x, in R. Chambers Sc. Ballads (1829) 259 He was riding burd-alane.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 32 When thou a maiden burd-alone, Hadst eighteen summers!

1922 P. Colum Dramatic Legends 41 She'd come down to our houses bird-alone, From some haunt that was hers.

1987 E. Morgan tr. G. Leopardi Leopardi: Scottis Quair vii. 40 Burdalane, I gaze alang thae unthrang fields.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).

单词	bird-alone
释义	bird-aloneadj. Brit. /ˌbəːdəˈləʊn/, U.S. /ˌbərdəˈloʊn/, Scottish English /ˌbɪrdəˈlon/, Irish English /ˌbəːrdəˈloʊn/ Forms: Scottish pre-1700 1700s– burd-alane, pre-1700 1800s burd-alone, pre-1700 1800s– bird-alane, 1800s bird-lane, 1800s burd-allane; Irish English (chiefly northern) 1900s– bird-alone. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bird n., alone adj. Etymology: Apparently < bird n. + alone adj., probably with allusion to Psalm 102:7 ‘like a sparrow alone upon the house tops’.Compare the following slightly earlier instance of the noun phrase bird alone in comparable metaphorical use:1567 Kingis Complaint (single sheet) Sen..I am left as Byrd allone.In later use the first element is sometimes apprehended as showing burd n. (compare quot. 1870). Scottish and Irish English. In later use also literary and archaic. Of a person or thing: entirely alone, solitary. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adjective] oneeOE onlepyOE onlyOE alonec1175 single1340 soleinc1381 solitaire1382 singularc1384 solec1400 oddc1480 alonelya1513 uncompanieda1547 a-high-lone1565 bird-alone1572 self-one1602 insociate1606 unmated1615 lonesome1647 solo1727 uncompanioned1809 unfellowed1887 Pat Malone1937 1572 P. R. Lament. Lady Scotl. sig. a.vii^v Tak ȝe ane, We must not leif the vther bird alane. c1650 Gallant Grahames (single sheet) Nathaniel Gordon, both stout and keen, Newtoun Gordon, Burd alone. 1717 A. Ramsay Elegy Lucky Wood in Poems (1800) I. 228 She's dead and gane, Left us and Willie burd alane, To bleer and greet. a1800 Sir Roland x, in R. Chambers Sc. Ballads (1829) 259 He was riding burd-alane. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 32 When thou a maiden burd-alone, Hadst eighteen summers! 1922 P. Colum Dramatic Legends 41 She'd come down to our houses bird-alone, From some haunt that was hers. 1987 E. Morgan tr. G. Leopardi Leopardi: Scottis Quair vii. 40 Burdalane, I gaze alang thae unthrang fields. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < adj.1572
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