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单词 year-day
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year-dayn.

Brit. /ˈjɪədeɪ/, /ˈjəːdeɪ/, U.S. /ˈjɪ(ə)rˌdeɪ/
Forms: see year n. and day n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: year n., day n.
Etymology: < year n. + day n. With sense 1 compare Old High German jārtaga (plural) a person's lifetime. With sense 2 compare Middle Dutch jaerdach anniversary (Dutch jaardag ), Middle Low German jārdach anniversary of a person's death, Middle High German jārtac anniversary (early modern German jartag ). Compare yore-day at yore adv. 5 and Old Icelandic árdagar (plural) days of yore.In senses 2 and 3 apparently independently re-formed. With sense 2 compare year's day n. 2. Old Frisian jērdei , early modern Dutch jaardag , early modern German jartag , all in sense ‘New Year's Day’ are probably independent variant formations of the respective parallels cited at year's day n. (compare year's day n. 1).
1. In plural. A person's life or lifetime. Cf. year n. 11a. Obsolete.Only in Old English.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life
life-dayOE
year-daysOE
timeOE
dayOE
lifeOE
life's timeOE
livelihoodOE
yearOE
lifetimea1300
life-whilea1300
for (also to) term of (a person's) lifea1325
coursec1384
livingc1390
voyage1390
agea1398
life's dayc1425
thread1447
racea1450
living daysc1450
natural life1461
lifeness1534
twist1568
leasec1595
span1599
clew1615
marcha1625
peregrination1653
clue1684
stamen1701
life term1739
innings1772
lifelong1814
pass-through1876
inning1885
natural1891
life cycle1915
puff1967
OE Cynewulf Crist II 821 Scyle gumena gehwylc on his geardagum georne biþencan þæt us milde bicwom meahta waldend æt ærestan þurh þæs engles word.
OE Paris Psalter (1932) lxxxix. 10 Beoð ure geardagas gnornscendende, þeah þe heora hundred seo samod ætgædere.
2. Christian Church. The anniversary of a person's death as an occasion for holding an office or service, either in commemoration or to pray for the person's soul; cf. obit n.1 2a, year's mind n. Also gen.: †an anniversary (obsolete). Now historical and rare.
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the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun]
anniversaryc1230
year's daya1393
year-day1431
birthday1556
anniversary day1567
anniverse1618
anniversal1635
anni1890
1431 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 281 (MED) We haue ordeyned..for to kepe the ȝereday of Jon lyster of Cambryge ȝerely.
1526 Lincoln Wills (1914) I. 179 That the sayd feoffers..yerely kepe up the aforsayd tyme my yereday for my soule.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 588 The very dayes on the which the women celebrated the feast and yereday of Adonis death.
1628 C. Greenbury tr. F. Paludanus Short Relation Life S. Elizabeth. xiii. 41 Beeing now returned home, shee kept the solemnity of the yeare day, of her deceased husband, at Odiuille with Alponsus her Sonne.
1739 F. Blomefield Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk I. 737 In 1507, William Browne was buried in the present Church and gave to the Monastery a Close called Gravours, to keep an Obit on his Year-Day, with Placebo and Dirige, for his, and his Wife's Souls.
1879 J. Raine Historians Church of York I. App. 508 (margin) The miraculous light on his year-day.
1997 C. Daniell Death & Burial Medieval Eng. 62 A year after the death or burial an anniversary service—which could be called an anniversary, obit, yearday, earthday or earthtide—could be held.
3. In plural. The days of the year. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > days of the year
year-days1900
1900 19th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1897–8 p. xliii A simple observation on the setting sun behind a distant sierra, which would in itself permit a count of year-days, if not the recognition of the bissextile.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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