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語源

Inherited from 古期英語 middaneard, an alteration of 古期英語 middanġeard; derived from Proto-Germanic *midjagardaz; compare later and more common myddelerd, myddelerthe.

発音

• IPA: /ˈmidənˌɛ̝ːrd/

名詞

myddenerd (uncountable) (Early Middle English)

1. The Earth; the world (as between Heaven and Hell or in the middle of the universe)
2. The people or things of the world (often contrasting with God or spiritual things respectively)

参照

• “midden-ē̆rd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.