Märchenn.

Brit.

/ˈmɛːʃən/,

/ˈmɛːxən/, U.S.

/ˈmɛrʃən/,

/ˈmɛrxən/

Inflections: Plural unchanged.

Forms: 1800s– Märchen, 1900s– märchen.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Märchen.

Etymology: < German Märchen fairy tale (a1450 in early modern German as merechyn short verse narrative < mære news, tale (German †Mär news; Old High German māri news, fame < the Germanic base of mere adj.¹) + -chin , -chen -kin suffix).Not fully naturalized in English.

A folk tale, a fairy tale, esp. in the Germanic tradition.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > a legend or folk tale

pistlec1400

legend1581

saga1845

Märchen1869

folk-epic1904

1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. x. 152 You and I will read these pleasant little Märchen together.

1885 Athenæum 22 Aug. 230/2 The Punjaub tales..are, naturally, rather modern and civilized..more so than Servian and Romaic Märchen.

1902 A. Lang in Folk-Lore 13 359 Mr. J. G. Frazer..starts from the idea so common in Märchen, of the person whose ‘soul’, ‘life’, or ‘strength’, is secretly hidden in an animal, plant, or other object.

1908 Mod. Philol. 5 402 There is no doubt..that the story of the shadowy Anglian king Offa, blended with märchen elements, was well known in England in the time of Cynewulf.

1928 W. W. Lawrence Beowulf & Epic Trad. 166 Study of märchen, both for their own sake and for the light that they throw upon sophisticated literature.

1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments viii. 515 Outside the apologoi the poet of the Odyssey prefers to eliminate elements of the märchen type.

1963 A. Brown & P. G. Foote Early Eng. & Norse Stud. 189 The French märchen-material.

1988 M. Sendak Caldecott & Co. (1989) ii. 202 The production..was our effort to..get back to the gritty, slaphappy German Märchen that..is fiercely true to a child's experience.

1994 L. Dégh Amer. Folklore & Mass Media ii. 34 The Märchen, the classical oral prose narrative of Old World peasantry, barely survived the cultural upheaval caused by industrialization.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	märchen
释义	Märchenn. Brit. /ˈmɛːʃən/, /ˈmɛːxən/, U.S. /ˈmɛrʃən/, /ˈmɛrxən/ Inflections: Plural unchanged. Forms: 1800s– Märchen, 1900s– märchen. Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Märchen. Etymology: < German Märchen fairy tale (a1450 in early modern German as merechyn short verse narrative < mære news, tale (German †Mär news; Old High German māri news, fame < the Germanic base of mere adj.¹) + -chin , -chen -kin suffix).Not fully naturalized in English. A folk tale, a fairy tale, esp. in the Germanic tradition. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > a legend or folk tale pistlec1400 legend1581 saga1845 Märchen1869 folk-epic1904 1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. x. 152 You and I will read these pleasant little Märchen together. 1885 Athenæum 22 Aug. 230/2 The Punjaub tales..are, naturally, rather modern and civilized..more so than Servian and Romaic Märchen. 1902 A. Lang in Folk-Lore 13 359 Mr. J. G. Frazer..starts from the idea so common in Märchen, of the person whose ‘soul’, ‘life’, or ‘strength’, is secretly hidden in an animal, plant, or other object. 1908 Mod. Philol. 5 402 There is no doubt..that the story of the shadowy Anglian king Offa, blended with märchen elements, was well known in England in the time of Cynewulf. 1928 W. W. Lawrence Beowulf & Epic Trad. 166 Study of märchen, both for their own sake and for the light that they throw upon sophisticated literature. 1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments viii. 515 Outside the apologoi the poet of the Odyssey prefers to eliminate elements of the märchen type. 1963 A. Brown & P. G. Foote Early Eng. & Norse Stud. 189 The French märchen-material. 1988 M. Sendak Caldecott & Co. (1989) ii. 202 The production..was our effort to..get back to the gritty, slaphappy German Märchen that..is fiercely true to a child's experience. 1994 L. Dégh Amer. Folklore & Mass Media ii. 34 The Märchen, the classical oral prose narrative of Old World peasantry, barely survived the cultural upheaval caused by industrialization. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1869
随便看	set to on work set to one's hands set to one's seal set to partners set to profit set to reason set to rights set to sale set to sale, a-sale set to sale, asale set to school set to seal set to seed set to show set to the heart set to the show set to the wall set to the wind set to to book set to to school set to work set together set tub set up set up a shop