earthling的词源

英文词源

earthling (n.)

Old English yrþling "plowman" (see earth + -ling); the sense of "inhabitant of the earth" is from 1590s and might be a re-formation, as the word seems to be missing in Middle English. Compare earthman. Earlier in this sense was earthite (1825).

中文词源

earthling：地球人

earth, 地球，土地。-ling, 小，见underling.

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