| 单词 | birth tongue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbirth tongue birth tongue n. rare before mid 19th cent. a person's native language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > native language lede-quidec1275 birth tonguea1387 mother languagea1425 mother tongue?a1425 vulgar1430 mother's languagec1443 mother's tongue1517 natural language1570 commona1616 natural1665 vernaculara1706 native1824 home language1833 first language1875 Umgangssprache1934 mameloshen1968 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 159 This apayrynge of þe burþe of þe tunge [read burþe tunge; ?a1475 anon tr. natife langage; L. nativæ linguæ corruptio] is bycause of tweie þinges. 1849 Brit. Q. Rev. Nov. 387 They have brought with them a noble heritage—a system of laws which shall become a model to the civilized world—..and a language that shall be the birth-tongue of half the human race. 2012 Past & Present Nov. 48 Children are alternately forbidden or encouraged to speak their birth tongues in classrooms. < as lemmas |
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