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語源 1

From 古期英語 eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō.

別の表記

• eerthe, erde, ereth, erth, erþ, erþe
• earþe, erðe, eorth, herðe (Early Middle English); eorðe, horðe, horþe (Early Middle English, West Midland)
• ȝerthe, irthe, yerth, yerthe, yrþe (Late Middle English)
• orþe (Kent); eirthe, eyrthe (Northern, Northwest Midland); eorthe, eorþe, urþe, urthe (Southern, West Midland); oerþ, oerþe (Herebert)

名詞

erthe

1. Earth; the world
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, page 40:

     And I seide, “Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe. And therwith he was named, as I gesse worthili, a passing reuli man and an innocent in al his lyuynge […] .”

     And I said, “Sir, in his time, Mr. John Wycliffe was held by very many men to be the greatest clergyman that they knew living upon the Earth. And therewith he was deemed, I guess deservingly, an excellent, regular man who was innocent in all his doing […] .”

2. The Earth's people or inhabitants
3. country, realm
4. land, terrain
5. ground, earth, dirt, soil, clay
6. earth (one of the alchemical elements)

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• English: earth; Earth
• Middle Scots: erd, erde, ȝerd, ȝeird (influenced by erd)
  • Scots: erd, yerd, yird, yirth; Yird
• Yola: erth, eart, eard, eord, eorth

参照

• “ē̆rthe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 March 2018.

語源 2

From 古期英語 yrþ; equivalent to eren (“to plough”) +‎ -the (abstract nominal suffix). Compare erd (“home”).

別の表記

• erþe

名詞

erthe (uncountable) (rare)

1. The ploughing of soil.
2. The amount of land ploughable in a day.

派生した語

• English: earth (confused with Etymology 1)

参照

• “ē̆rthe, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.