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单词 mowe
释义

mowen.

Forms:

α. Old English mæge, early Middle English mechȝe, early Middle English meȝhe ( Ormulum), early Middle English mehe.

β. Old English–early Middle English mage, early Middle English maȝe, early Middle English maȝhe, early Middle English mawe, early Middle English moge, early Middle English moȝe, early Middle English mouwe, Middle English maghe (northern), Middle English mau (northern), Middle English mohw, Middle English moui, Middle English mow, Middle English mowe.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: The reflex of a Germanic weak feminine noun derived < the base of may n.1The β. forms show retraction of original ǣ (seen in the α. forms) before a back vowel in inflected forms in Old English, which has been levelled throughout the paradigm (compare A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. (1959) §162).
Obsolete.
A female relative; a kinswoman, esp. by marriage (as a sister-in-law, etc.).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun] > female relative
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun] > relative by marriage > female
moweOE
α.
OE Genesis A (1931) 1832 Saga þu, Sarra, þæt þu sie sweostor min, lices mæge.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) i. 36 Nu elizabeth þin mæge [c1200 Hatton þin mage] sunu on hyre ylde geeacnode.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2657 Ȝho ras hire upp. & for anan..Till hire meȝhe elysabæþ.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 36 Meies & mehes [c1225 Royal mehen] ba.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 42 Ha com & grette elyzabeth hire mehe [?c1225 Cleo. mechȝe, a1250 Nero mowe].
β. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xiii. 283 Efne þin mage elisabeð gegeacnode & sceal acennan cild on hyre ylde.OE Beowulf 1391 Uton hraþe feran, Grendles magan gang sceawigan.lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1100 Se cyng genam Mahalde him to wife Malcomes cynges dohter of Scotlande, & Margareta, þære goda cwæne, Eadwardes cynges magan.a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 125 Seinte marie..com to hire moge, Seinte elizabet.c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 6458 He made þe oþer, Þat het edward, spousi þe emperours mowe.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2807 Has þou her..ani man, Sun or doghter, milk or mau [a1400 Fairf. eme or maghe; a1400 Gött. or ani mohw]. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 345 (MED) Mow, husbondys syster, or wyfys syster, or syster in lawe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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