英:[hæg]
美:[hæɡ]
英:[hæg]
美:[hæɡ]
n.
女巫
丑婆
魔女
沼地
复数:hags
第三人称单数:hags
现在分词:hagging
过去式:hagged
过去分词:hagged
noun (1)
an ugly, slatternly, or evil-looking old woman
a female demon
an evil or frightening spirit : hobgoblin
witch
noun (2)
British quagmire, bog
British a firm spot in a bog
abbreviation
Haggai
13世纪初,“令人厌恶的老妇人”(16世纪前很少见),可能来自古英语 hægtes, hægtesse “女巫,巫婆,女巫,狂怒”,缩短了 -tes 是后缀的假设。古英语单词来自原始日耳曼语 *hagatusjon,其起源不明。荷兰语 heks,德语 Hexe “女巫”同样缩短自同源的中古荷兰语 haghetisse,古高地德语 hagzusa。
第一个元素可能与古英语 haga “围栏,标记为砍伐的林地部分”(见 hedge(n.))。古诺尔斯语有 tunriða 和古高地德语 zunritha,两者都是“篱笆骑手”的字面意思,用于描述女巫和幽灵。史前化合物中的第二个元素可能与挪威语 tysja “仙女; 残疾妇女”,高卢语 dusius “恶魔”,立陶宛语 dvasia “精灵”有关,源自 PIE *dhewes- “飞来飞去,冒烟,散开,消失”。
这是一种魔法词汇,没有男性形式,这表明它的原始含义接近于“占卜者,预言家”,在北欧异教中,这些角色总是女性, hægtesse 曾经意味着“具有预言和神谕能力的女人”(Æ lfric 用它来翻译希腊语“pythoness”,德尔斐神谕的声音),这是一个非常受人敬畏和尊重的人物。后来,这个词被用来形容村庄里的智者。
Haga 也是 hawthorn 中的 haw-,这是北欧异教中的重要树木。这里可能有几层民间词源。中古英语 hæhtis, hægtis “女巫,狂怒等”,以及 haetnesse “女神”,用于米涅尔瓦和黛安娜,暗示了与 heathenish 的混淆或融合。
如果 hægtesse 曾经是一个强大的超自然女人(在挪威语中,它是三个怪异姐妹之一的 Norn 的替代词,相当于命运女神),它可能最初带有山楂的意义。后来,当异教魔法被减少到当地散布时,它可能具有“篱笆骑手”或“跨越篱笆的人”的意义,因为篱笆是村庄文明世界和野外世界之间的边界。hægtesse 会在两个现实中都有立足之地。更晚些时候,当它意味着当地的治疗师和根采集者,生活在开放的地方并从村庄到村庄移动时,它可能具有轻微的中古英语意义 hedge-(hedge-priest 等),暗示一个流浪者睡在灌木丛下。同一个词在缩短到现代意义之前可能包含了所有三个意义。
Noun (1) Middle English hagge demon, old woman Noun (2) Scots, break in a moor, from Old Norse hǫgg cut, cleft; akin to Old English hēawan to hew
The first known use of hag was in the 13th century
hagnoun
an ugly or evil old woman
witch sense 1
1 Harry supposed that as Hogsmeade was the only all-wizard village in Britain, it was a bit of a haven for creatures like hags, who were not as adept as wizards at disguising themselves.
2 I hope the old hag has gone out to do her grocery shopping and hasn't come back yet.
我希望那个老妖婆出门买杂货还没回来。
3 For the old hag with the yellow teeth.
有着黄板牙的丑婆子.
4 The village hag, she was a tiny, stooped woman with a dull red mark on her right cheek and wayward hairs upon her chin.
5 Could Gran have been the one who took a piece of the hag skin?
6 “How is she still teaching? Do you remember those notes I hid all over her classroom that said, ‘You’re an ugly hag, and you’ll die alone.’?”
7 Turns out Gran didn’t need the hag skin to make Dinah alive.
8 Estés — a psychoanalyst, poet and cantadora, or “keeper of old stories” — draws from Jungian archetypes, hag lore and wildlife observation to build an alternative feminine mythology.
9 ‘Why have you pinned your little heart to an old, ugly hag like me?”
10 Wild wood should be well protect from excessive hag.
野生森林应该被保护以免过量砍伐。
11 "I asked the old hag if the new bit of meat was any better and she said it was perfectly delicious! She said it was really tasty!"
12 Hebrew legends equate the night hag with Adam's first wife, Lilith (More about Lilith).
希伯来人将其归罪于“夜之魔女”莉莉斯(Lilith),也就是亚当的第一任妻子。
13 I kept thinking of this mean old hag.
我一直在考虑这个卑鄙的老巫婆。
14 What follows is a contemplation of death in Spanish, Greek, German, English and French, embellished with trills and shrieks and strangled cries, sensual moans and the cackles of hags.
15 Its narrator was Constance Garnett, the real-life translator of Russian classics, reimagined as a senile, spotlight-stealing hag.
16 You ugly hag, Why do you strike me!
你这个丑老太婆,凭什么打我!
17 The winged hags pressed in, their breath sour, their eyes burning with hatred.
18 falsely accused of being a hag who had caused the plague
19 The little pouch the old hag had given me—with the cross of lead—remained.
20 although she looks like a hag, she's really the sweetest old lady you could ever hope to meet
1 丑鱼
4 母夜叉
9 巫婆
witchy witch hellcat carlin sibyl wisewoman bruja hex enchantress beldam pishogue wise woman psychic
10 伐木
11 女巫
sibylline medium witch sorceress sibyl wisewoman hex enchantress pythoness conjure woman wise woman hellcat spaewife Sibyl beldam witchy
12 穿口盖类鱼
14 黏盲鳗
15 沼地
paludine moorish marshy paludal moory swamp slew slump marsh ooze dismal swale quag swamp glider