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单词 miri
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mirin.1

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mirie.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mirie, mire (c1165; compare Old French meire , mere , Middle French myere , French mire ) < classical Latin medicus medic n.1 Compare Italian miro (14th cent.).For the development of -r- in the Anglo-Norman and Old French words see Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch s.v. mĕdĭcus, Trésor de la langue française s.v. mire2, and secondary references s.vv.
Obsolete. rare.
A physician.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun]
physician?c1225
leecherc1374
practiserc1387
doctora1400
flesh-leecha1400
leechman14..
mediciner?a1425
miria1425
M.D.1425
medicine?c1450
practitioner?1543
minister1559
doc1563
artist1565
medicus1570
medicianera1578
Aesculapius1586
Dra1593
pisspot1592
medician1597
physicianer1598
medicinary1599
pisspot1600
velvet-cap1602
healer1611
Galena1616
physiner1616
clyster1621
clyster-pipe1622
hakim1623
medic1625
practicant1630
medico1647
physicker1649
physicster1689
Aesculapian1694
nim-gimmer1699
pill-monger1706
medical man1784
meester1812
medical1823
pill-gilder1824
therapeutist1830
pill1835
pill roller1843
med1851
pill-peddler1855
therapeutic1858
squirt1859
medicine man1866
pill pusher1879
therapist1886
doser1888
internist1894
pill-shooter1911
whitecoat1911
quack1919
vet1925
a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 22 For þi sal sho do als te wyse miri dos, þat wyl hele þe seke.
a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 23 Þan sal þabbes do als te sleȝe miri [L. medicus].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

Mirin.2adj.

Brit. /ˈmɪri/, U.S. /ˈmɪri/
Inflections: Plural Miris, unchanged.
Origin: A borrowing from Assamese. Etymon: Assamese Miri.
Etymology: < Assamese Miri, apparently originally designating the hill-dwelling Miris, of uncertain origin.The name apparently continued to be used in Assamese and English for the hill people after they had settled on the plains; it is considered offensive by the peoples themselves. The hill Miris' self-designation is Nishi ; the plain-dwellers call themselves Mishing : compare G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India III. (1909) i. 584 and quot. 1981 at sense A. 1.
A. n.2
1. A member of an originally hill-dwelling people of the eastern Himalayas who subsequently settled in the Assam valley.The term is not used by the peoples themselves: see etymological note and quot. 1981.
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1828 J. B. Neufville in Asiatic Researches 16 334 The river..washes the country inhabited by the tribe of Mírís, a nearly barbarous race, rudely armed with bows and arrows, and differing altogether in language, appearance, and manners from the inhabitants of Asam proper... The Mírís..are very expert in the management of the bow.
1890 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 19 182 Outline Grammar of the Shai'yâng Miri Language, as spoken by the Miris of that Clan residing in the neighbourhood of Sadiyah.
1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 773/1 The hill and frontier tribes of Assam include the..Singphos, Daphlas, Miris..&c., nearly all of whom..are found near the frontiers of Lakhimpur district.
1981 N. C. Pegu Mishings Brahmaputra Valley p. vi Though they are named as ‘Miri’ in the list of scheduled tribes of Assam by Constitutional order, 1950 and subsequent amendments, they call themselves as ‘Mishing’ not without pride. To them, the term ‘Miri’ is ambiguous and rings derogatory.
2. Any of a number of Tibeto-Burman languages of the Miris.
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1837 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 6 ii. 1026 The A'bors occupy the lofty ranges of the mountains... The Mirí is a dialect of this language, which is spoken by the people of the plains; but is said not to be essentially different from the language of the highlands.
1875 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 4 157 The languages of North-west Bengal..are Bodo, Borro, Kachari, and Dhimal; and the Miri (Abor and Sibsagur) of the eastern frontier of Bengal.
1909 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India III. i. 569 Miri and Mishmi are said to possess tones.
1972 Bk. Thousand Tongues (United Bible Soc.) (rev. ed.) 1/2 North Assam languages..Adi (Abor), and Miri are spoken in North East Frontier Agency and northeast Assam, India, and in Tibet.
1996 B. F. Grimes Ethnologue (ed. 13) 568 Some sources separate Adi and Miri as two languages.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Miris or their languages.
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1872 E. T. Dalton Descriptive Ethnol. Bengal i. v. 29 The Miri girls dance the somewhat sensual Bihu dance with great spirit.
1882 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 11 54 Fig. 3 shows the Miri houses, in lines also or rows, near river banks, north and north-east of Assam.
1890 [see sense A. 1].
1972 Bk. Thousand Tongues (United Bible Soc.) (rev. ed.) 1/2 Abor Miri..is one of the mutually understood dialects of more than 100,000 Miri tribesmen and an undetermined number of Adis.
1981 N. C. Pegu tr. Proverb in Mishings Brahmaputra Valley i. 1 The Miri woman laments looking at the peak of mountains when her husband dies.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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