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单词 eten
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etenettinn.

Forms: Old English eoten, eten, Middle English eatand(e, eatante, eotand, eotend, eotind, ȝeten, Middle English eten(e, etin, yhoten, Middle English etayn(e, 1500s Scottish eitin, etin, eyttyn, 1600s ettin.
Etymology: Old English eoten, eten = Old Norse iǫtunn (Swedish jätte, Danish jette) < Old Germanic *ituno-z.
Obsolete.
A giant.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > fabulous or mythical human > giant
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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8622 Hit hatte þere Eotinde Ring.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 902 Heo funden i þon londe twenti eotandes [c1300 Otho eatantes] stronge.
a1300 E.E. Psalter xviii. 6 [xix. 5] He gladed als yhoten to renne his wai.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 545 Of hem woren ðe getenes boren, Migti men and figti.
c1325 Leg. Rood (1871) 118 Quen dauid faȝt againe þat etin has he noȝt his staf for-ȝetin.
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 111 No man is an etene to fede him þus bodili of Crist.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 723 He werreȝ..Boþe wyth bulleȝ & bereȝ & boreȝ oþer-quyle, & etaynez [MS reads etayneȝ].
c1440 MS. Lincoln A. 1. 17. f. 128 (Halliw.) Fy, he said, thou foule! thou etayne! Alle my knyghtes thou garte be slayne.
1528 D. Lindsay Dreme Ep. to King 45 Off the reid Etin [v.r. Eitin] and the gyir carlyng.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 50 The taiyl of the reyde eyttyn vitht the thre heydis.
1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle i. sig. C2 They say the King of Portugall cannot sit at his meate, but the Giants & the Ettins will come and snatch it from him.
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