单词 | wella |
释义 | † wellaint.adv. Obsolete. A. int. 1. Used to introduce a remark or statement: well; well then. With following noun (as vocative).In Old English sometimes preceding wel well adv., with intervening vocative, as in quot. lOE, quot. eOE at well adv. 20a. ΚΠ eOE Metres of Boethius (partly from transcript of damaged MS) xxi. 1 [W] ella, monna bearn geond middangeard, friora æghwilc fundie to þæm ecum gode. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xxxiv. 324 Wella, men, wel. c1300 St. Nicholas (Harl.) l. 406 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 563 (MED) Wele, Louerd, þe grete ioye þat of þe miracle was. 2. As an exclamation of sorrow or lamentation: ‘ah!’ ‘alas!’ Frequently with following noun (as vocative).Also followed by a clause, with the sense ‘alas that’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [interjection] > specific cry of grief woeeOE wellawayeOE weilac1000 wellawayOE wellaOE woe is meOE wummec1175 wia1200 outa1225 alas?c1225 walec1275 ac1300 whilec1402 ochonea1425 wellesay?1440 wannowec1450 helas1484 ah1509 ocha1522 ah me!a1547 wougha1556 eh1569 welladay1570 how1575 wellanear1581 ay me!1591 lasa1593 wella, welladay1601 good lack!1638 oime1660 pillaloo1663 wellanearing1683 lack-a-day1695 wasteheart1695 walya1724 lackadaisy1748 ochree1748 waesucks1773 well-a-winsa1774 ullagone1819 wirra1825 mavrone1827 wirrasthru1827 ototoi1877 wurra1898 OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 86 Se læce..cwæð mid wope, wella, Basilius, gif ðu sylf noldest, nære þu git forðfaran. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3927 Welle [c1300 Otho Wola] broðer Nennius. þat ich þe quic nabbe. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1726 Wallan [c1300 Otho Wo-la] dæð wela [c1300 Otho Wola] deað. þat þu me nelt for-demen. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2545 Wel ay! Ȝif þai weren in sinne Nouȝt so þai no lay. c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 183 Loke houe þai con onswere þen... In hongyr, in þurst, in myschif, wellay. B. adv. As an intensifier: very, exceedingly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very tooc888 swith971 wellOE wellOE fullOE rightc1175 muchc1225 wellac1275 gainlya1375 endlyc1440 hard?1440 very1448 odda1500 great1535 jolly1549 fellc1600 veryvery1649 gooda1655 vastly1664 strange1667 bloody1676 ever so1686 heartily1727 real1771 precious1775 quarely1805 murry1818 très1819 freely1820 powerfula1822 gurt1824 almighty1830 heap1832 all-fired1833 gradely1850 real1856 bonny1857 heavens1858 veddy1859 canny1867 some1867 oh-so1881 storming1883 spanking1886 socking1896 hefty1898 velly1898 fair dinkum1904 plurry1907 Pygmalion1914 dinkum1915 beaucoup1918 dirty1920 molto1923 snorting1924 honking1929 hellishing1931 thumpingly1948 way1965 mega1966 mondo1968 seriously1970 totally1972 mucho1978 stonking1990 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15603 Wellen henden wes þe mon Osric ihaten. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14783 Welle uain [c1300 Otho wele glad] wes he þer-uore. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2978 Wælle muchel wes þa wop þæ Belin þeonne wende. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 831 Þe gestes gay and ful glad..Welawynnely wlonk. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 518 Wela-wynne is þe wort þat waxes þer-oute. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1970 For wella [a1500 Trin. Dublin wele] wide ware þe wele..Miȝt þou þe marches of Messedoyne mayntene þi-selfe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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