whale-road

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The ocean; the open sea. literary
    — […] and his name was called Scyld. He grew to man's estate, and became a mighty king, and subdued the peoples under him. All the neighboring peoples across the whale roads obeyed Scyld.

词形变化

the whale-road canonical whale-roads plural

词源

From whale + road, after Old English hranrād, from hran (“whale”) + rād (“road”), though this translation is debated. Another translation is hran as dolphin and rād as a modified form of rāden (to ride). Therefore, hranrād would be the "riding place of dolphins" or "dolphins' riding".
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