eld

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One's age, age in years, period of life. dialectal,rare,uncountable
    — The experience of many years gave old men peculiar qualification for various offices; and elders, or men of a ripe or advanced eld or age, were variously employed under the Mosaic law.
  2. Old age, senility; an old person. archaic,poetic,uncountable
    — Dotard, (ſaide he) let be thy deepe aduiſe; Seemes that through many yeares thy wits thee faile, And that weake eld hath left thee nothing wiſe, Els neuer ſhould thy iudgement be ſo frayle, To meaſure manhood by the ſword or mayle.
  3. Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time. archaic,poetic,uncountable
  4. Former ages, antiquity, olden times. archaic,poetic,uncountable
    — Once adown the dewy way a youthful cavalier spurred with a maiden mounted behind him, swiftly passing out of sight, recalling to the imagination some romance of eld, when the damosel fled with her lover.
动词 v.
  1. To age, become or grow old. archaic,dialectal,intransitive,poetic
  2. To delay; linger. archaic,intransitive,poetic
  3. To make old, age. archaic,poetic,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Old. obsolete

词形变化

elth alternative eild alternative,Scotland eeld alternative,Scotland ild alternative,Scotland yeeld alternative,Scotland elder comparative eldest superlative elth alternative eild alternative,Scotland eeld alternative,Scotland ild alternative,Scotland yeeld alternative,Scotland elds present,singular,third-person elding participle,present elded participle,past elded past elth alternative eild alternative,Scotland eeld alternative,Scotland ild alternative,Scotland yeeld alternative,Scotland

词汇关系

近义词
procrastinate

词源

词源 1
From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”).
Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), Old English alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old.
词源 2
From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”).
Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), Old English alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old.
词源 3
From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”).
Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), Old English alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old.
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