esne

n. 底层社会的人, 奴仆

词形变化

esnes 复数 esnes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A hireling of servile status; slave.

    历史

词源

Learned borrowing from Old English esne, from Proto-West Germanic *asnī, from Proto-Germanic *asnijaz (“day labourer, hireling”), from Proto-Germanic *asniz, *asunz (“reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *os(e)n-, *es(e)n- (“summer, harvest, harvest-time”). Related to Old English earnian (“to labor for, strive after, deserve as the reward of labor, merit, earn, win”). More at earn.

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