| 释义 |
▪ I. cun, cunne, v. Obs. (or ? dial.)
[OE. cunnian, -ode, wk. vb., = OS. -cunnôn in gicunnon to learn to know:—OTeut. type *kunnojan, deriv. of kunnan to know (see can). Cf. the parallel deriv. forms, Gothic ga-kunnan, kunnaida, to learn to know, and OHG. chunnên, MHG. kunnen to learn to know, investigate, try, test. See also cunner, conner, ale-conner, and con v.]
In OE.: To learn to know, inquire into, explore, investigate; whence a. To have experience of, prove, test, try, make trial of (in OE. with genitive, in ME. sometimes with of); to taste. Obs. or ? dial.
Beowulf 1021 Þær ᵹit wada cunnedon. c888K. ælfred Boeth. v. §3 Mot ic nu cunnian hwon þinne fæstrædnesse? a1000Crist 1418 (Gr.) Uncuþne eard cunnnian. a1000Sal. & Sat. 227 (Gr.) Cunnað dryhtnes meahta. c1200Ormin 834 Ne wollde het næfre cunnenn. a1225Ancr. R. 114 He dude his deorewurðe muð þerto, & smeihte ant cunnede þerof. 1597Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 646 They sall not than the Cherrie cun, That wald not enterpryse. [‘Still used in this sense in Dumfr.’ (Jamieson 1808).]
†b. To try to do something. Obs.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 151 Summe to kunnen if heo mihten him mid sunne undernime. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 87 Swiche hertes..cunneð gif he mai þer inne herbergen. c1200Ormin 12137 He wollde cunnen swa To brinngenn inn hiss herrte Erþlike þingess lufe & lusst. a1225St. Marher. 13 Heom..þet cunnið to beon cleane.
c. To get to know, to study or learn: see con v.1 sense 3, of which examples spelt cun, cunne, come down nearly to 1600. In these there was probably a blending of the verbs cunnan, can, with this verb.
1425–1580 [see con v.1 3]. 1668Maynwaring Compl. Physitian 67 He sits down and cuns his Lesson.
▪ II. cun
see can v.1 and v.2, con v.1 and v.2.
▪ III. cun|kyn|
obs. form of kin. |