Oxeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 古期英語 oxa, from Proto-West Germanic *ohsō, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɔks(ə)/

名詞

oxe (plural oxen)

1. ox
   • c. 1390 [c. 1225], “Furſte dole: ſeruiſe”, in Þe roule of reclous (Ancrene Wisse, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1)‎, Worcestershire, folio 373, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2019 January 10:

     BI. daye ſũtyme. oþ᷑ beo niht. gedereþ in oure herte. alle seeke and ſoꝛe. þat wo. and pouert. þ poꝛe þoleþ. þe pyne þat pͥſons habbeþ. þer aliggen wıþ Iren heuye I.feteret. Nomeliche of þe cristene. þat beoþ in heþeneſſe. Sũme in prison. sũme in as muche wo. as Oxe is. oþer Aſſe.

     At some point in the day or night hold in your heart all the sick and grieving, the suffering and deprivation the poor endure, the torments that prisons contain, where [people] lie fettered with heavy iron, and especially the Christians who are in Heathendom: some in prison, and some in as much misery as an ox or a donkey.

使用する際の注意点

The plurals oxes and exen are occasionally found.

語形変化

関連する語

• Oxenford
• oxeherde
• oxtonge

派生した語

• English: ox (see there for further descendants)
• Middle Scots: ox, hox, oix, oxe, oxx
  • Scots: ouse (either from Middle Scots *owse or rebuilt on the plural owsyn)

参照

• “oxe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.