earthen

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɜː(ɹ)θən/|/ˈɜː(ɹ)ðən/    美 /ˈɝθən/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. to provide or add soil to transitive
    — Their inter-tillage operations, earthening-up of some crops and tillage in orchard/gardens or plantation crops, are stated below, under special cropping system in different situations.
  2. to make earthly or earthlike transitive
    — It deadens,—or earthens—the spirit in both directions.
形容词 adj.
  1. Made of earth or mud.
    — 1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans A hundred earthen dwellings stood on the margin of the lake […]
  2. Made of clay. especially
    — 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation ... the Godfathers and Godmothers follow into the midst of the Church, where there is a small table ready set, and on it an earthen pot ful of warme water, […]
  3. Earthly. archaic
    — Will they be yours when one by one these earthen / Delights and comforts and all beauties wane? / Will they be found laid up above, illumined?

词形变化

more earthen comparative most earthen superlative earthens present,singular,third-person earthening participle,present earthened participle,past earthened past

词汇关系

衍生词
earthen mound earthenware earthenwork

词源

词源 1
From Middle English erthen, urthen, from Old English eorþen, yrþen, ierþen (“made of earth”), from Proto-Germanic *irþīnaz. Cognate with Dutch aarden (“earthen”), German irden (“earthen”). By surface analysis, earth + -en (“made of”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-der.
Proto-Germanic *erþō
Proto-West Germanic *erþu
Old English eorþe
Middle English erthe
English earth
English -en
English earthen
From earth + -en (“to make like”).
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