dawn: [15] Dawn was originally formed from day. The Old English word dæg ‘day’ formed the basis of dagung, literally ‘daying’, a word coined to designate the emergence of day from night. In Middle English this became daiing or dawyng, which in the 13th to 14th centuries evolved to dai(e)ning or dawenyng, on the model of some such Scandinavian form as Old Swedish daghning. Then in the 15th century the -ing ending was dropped to produce dawn. => day
dawn (v.)
c. 1200, dauen, "to dawn, grow light," shortened or back-formed from dauinge, dauing "period between darkness and sunrise," (c. 1200), from Old English dagung, from dagian "to become day," from Proto-Germanic *dagaz "day" (cognates: German tagen "to dawn;" see day (n.)). Probably influenced by Scandinavian cognates (Danish dagning, Old Norse dagan "a dawning"). Related: Dawned; dawning.
dawn (n.)
1590s, from dawn (v.).
双语例句
1. At dawn I woke him up and said we were leaving.
黎明时分，我把他叫醒，告诉他我们要走了。
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2. I started work at dawn and returned only at nightfall.
我披星戴月地工作。
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3. A breakfast will be served to those who last out till dawn!
坚持到天亮的能吃上早餐！
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4. The business, founded by Dawn and Nigel, suffered financial setbacks.
唐和奈杰尔创办的企业在资金上遇到了一些问题。
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5. Thousands of pounds worth of drugs were seized in dawn raids yesterday.
