gloaming

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈɡləʊ.mɪŋ/    /ˈɡloʊ.mɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.
    — Where in purple hue, the hieland hills we view / And the moon coming out in the gloaming.
  2. Sullenness; melancholy. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of gloam form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

gloamings plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English gloming, from Old English glōmung, from Old English glōm (“twilight”). Related to glow.
The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English glōmung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ō was shortened in the compound ǣfen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject glŏmung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English glǭming, modern English gloaming."
词源 2
From Middle English gloming, from Old English glōmung, from Old English glōm (“twilight”). Related to glow.
The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English glōmung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ō was shortened in the compound ǣfen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject glŏmung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English glǭming, modern English gloaming."
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