英和和英

語源

From 中期英語 waniand, wanyand, wenyande, apparently a noun usage of waniand (“waning”, present participle), from 古期英語 waniende (“waning”, present participle), from wanian (“to wane”), equivalent to wane +‎ -and.

名詞

waniand (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The wane of the Moon.
   • 1352, Laurence Minot, Poems:

     For all thaire grete fare: It was in the waniand
     That thai come thare

参照

• “waniand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.