atheling

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A prince, especially an Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir.
    — […]to substitute as the Confessor′s heir, the Atheling Edward (son of Edmund Ironside), who was then an exile in Hungary. After the atheling′s return from exile, and his very suspicious death in England in 1057, the Norman duke must surely have realized that his chief opponent in England was likely to be Harold Godwineson[…].

词形变化

athelings plural adeling alternative aetheling alternative ætheling alternative etheling alternative

词汇关系

反义词
hlæfdige

词源

From Middle English atheling, from Old English æþeling, from Proto-West Germanic *aþuling, from Proto-Germanic *aþulingaz. Doublet of edling. By surface analysis, athel + -ing.
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