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单词 east angle
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East Anglen.

Brit. /ˌiːst ˈaŋɡl/, U.S. /ˌist ˈæŋɡ(ə)l/
Forms: see east adv., adj., and n.1 and Angle n.3
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: east adj., Angle n.3
Etymology: < east adj. + Angle n.3 Compare East Anglia as place name (see note at East Anglian adj.).Compare Old English Ēast-Engle (also Ēast-Ængle , (rare) Ēast-Angle ) East Angles, (hence) East Anglia ( < the uninflected (originally adverb) stem of east adj. (see discussion at east adv., adj., and n.1) + Engle n.), which probably served as the model for post-classical Latin Angli Orientales East Angles (from c730 in British sources). The Old English word survives into Middle English as Est-Engle (also Est-Angle) denoting East Anglia.
A native or inhabitant of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia. In later use also: a native or inhabitant of the modern geographical area of East Anglia. Cf. East Anglian adj.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 265 Of þe Angles come þe Est Angles [L. orientales Angli] and Myddel Angels, þat is þe Mercies.
1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 34 She sent by a preuye lettre for Accas, and Bedewinus, Byshoppes of the East Angles.
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xix. 37/2 The Diuels Ditch..made for a defense..against the Mercians, by the East-Angles, whose Kingdome it inuerged.
1779 J. Carver New Universal Traveller ix. 420/2 In this county there are several wide, deep, and long ditches, which were cut by the East Angles, to keep out the Mercians.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) at Barth Between the sound of the two words there is little or nothing to choose in the mouth of an East-Angle.
1869 E. A. Freeman Old Eng. Hist. for Children vii. 97 We can well believe that the East-Angles had sorely hated the Mercians ever since their King Æthelberht had been so treacherously killed by Offa.
1920 J. M. Muir Short Hist. Brit. Commonw. I. ii. 16 Norfolk and Suffolk (the north folk and the south folk of the East Angles).
2007 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 9 Apr. 14 The vast majority of English people regard themselves as English, not West Saxons, Mercians or East Angles.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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