"Asia" meaning in Old English

See Asia in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: From Latin Asia, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Asíā), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 (a-si-wi-ja /⁠aswijaː⁠/), in turn probably from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (aš-šu-wa /⁠Aššuwa⁠/, “northwest Anatolia”) of uncertain origin. Etymology templates: {{bor|ang|la|Asia}} Latin Asia, {{der|ang|grc|Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ}} Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Asíā), {{der|ang|gmy|𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊|ts=aswijaː}} Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 (a-si-wi-ja /⁠aswijaː⁠/), {{der|ang|hit|𒀸𒋗𒉿|t=northwest Anatolia|tr=aš-šu-wa|ts=Aššuwa}} Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (aš-šu-wa /⁠Aššuwa⁠/, “northwest Anatolia”) Head templates: {{head|ang|proper nouns|g=?|g2=|g3=|g4=|g5=|head=|sort=}} Asia ?, {{ang-proper noun|?}} Asia ?
  1. Asia Categories (place): Asia, Continents
    Sense id: en-Asia-ang-name-esAuwch0 Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 19 entries
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "Asia"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin Asia",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Asíā)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmy",
        "3": "𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊",
        "ts": "aswijaː"
      },
      "expansion": "Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 (a-si-wi-ja /⁠aswijaː⁠/)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "hit",
        "3": "𒀸𒋗𒉿",
        "t": "northwest Anatolia",
        "tr": "aš-šu-wa",
        "ts": "Aššuwa"
      },
      "expansion": "Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (aš-šu-wa /⁠Aššuwa⁠/, “northwest Anatolia”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin Asia, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Asíā), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 (a-si-wi-ja /⁠aswijaː⁠/), in turn probably from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (aš-šu-wa /⁠Aššuwa⁠/, “northwest Anatolia”) of uncertain origin.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "proper nouns",
        "g": "?",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "g4": "",
        "g5": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Asia ?",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "Asia ?",
      "name": "ang-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 19 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "ang",
          "name": "Asia",
          "orig": "ang:Asia",
          "parents": [
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "ang",
          "name": "Continents",
          "orig": "ang:Continents",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Asia is surrounded by...the southern and northern and eastern sea...",
          "text": "late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans\nAsia is befangen mid...þǣm gārseċġe sūþan ⁊ norþan ⁊ eastan...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Asia"
      ],
      "id": "en-Asia-ang-name-esAuwch0",
      "links": [
        [
          "Asia",
          "Asia"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Asia"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "Asia"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin Asia",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Asíā)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmy",
        "3": "𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊",
        "ts": "aswijaː"
      },
      "expansion": "Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 (a-si-wi-ja /⁠aswijaː⁠/)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "hit",
        "3": "𒀸𒋗𒉿",
        "t": "northwest Anatolia",
        "tr": "aš-šu-wa",
        "ts": "Aššuwa"
      },
      "expansion": "Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (aš-šu-wa /⁠Aššuwa⁠/, “northwest Anatolia”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin Asia, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Asíā), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 (a-si-wi-ja /⁠aswijaː⁠/), in turn probably from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (aš-šu-wa /⁠Aššuwa⁠/, “northwest Anatolia”) of uncertain origin.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "proper nouns",
        "g": "?",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "g4": "",
        "g5": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Asia ?",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "Asia ?",
      "name": "ang-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old English lemmas",
        "Old English proper nouns",
        "Old English terms borrowed from Latin",
        "Old English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "Old English terms derived from Hittite",
        "Old English terms derived from Latin",
        "Old English terms derived from Mycenaean Greek",
        "Old English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 19 entries",
        "Requests for gender in Old English entries",
        "ang:Asia",
        "ang:Continents"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Asia is surrounded by...the southern and northern and eastern sea...",
          "text": "late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans\nAsia is befangen mid...þǣm gārseċġe sūþan ⁊ norþan ⁊ eastan...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Asia"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Asia",
          "Asia"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Asia"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Asia meaning in Old English (2.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Old English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.