[词典讨论] OED不收Asia？

dfliaoyue 发表于 2020-10-31 18:40
查了下在线版，确实没这个词条。。

Probably the most immediately obvious situation in which place names make contact with the vocabulary at large is when they come to be used as elements of words or phrases that require definition in their own right. The OED does have an entry for Oxford, not to cover the name of the city itself, but to accommodate compounds where the name qualifies another word: like Oxford University and Oxford Union, as well as Oxford bags (a style of wide-legged trousers popular among students in the 1920s), Oxford John (a spicy eighteenth-century stew made with stale mutton ‘collops’, ripe for recreation by Heston Blumenthal), Oxford marmalade (first made commercially in the 1870s by the Cooper family at 83 High Street), and Oxford comma (the kind I have just used).

klwo2 发表于 2020-10-31 19:23
OED一直都是语文词典，不收百科条目的呀

https://public.oed.com/blog/place-names-in-the-oxford ...

共同研习 发表于 2020-10-31 19:34
这就很神奇了，里面China这些词也是能查到的。
我很好奇etymonline上Asia那篇的词源是从哪抄出来的，因为 ...

klwo2 发表于 2020-10-31 19:37
没什么好神奇的啊，上头Oxford的情况我解释过了

etymonline的参考文献：

c. 1300, from Latin Asia, from Greek Asia, speculated to be from Akkadian asu "to go out, to rise," in reference to the sun, thus "the land of the sunrise." Used by the early Greeks of what later was known as Asia Minor; by Pliny of the whole continent.

共同研习 发表于 2020-10-31 19:48
这段话好像wiki上面也没有，不知道etymonline的作者是从哪抄来的，反正照你说的不是OED。 ...