Samoyedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Russian самое́д (samojéd), probably from Sami *saam-edne (“land of the people”); compare Finnish Suomi (“Finn”). In the course of borrowing, the word was folk-etymologically reinterpreted as сам (sam, “self, own”) + есть, ед- (jestʹ, jed-, “eat”), "self-eater."

発音

• IPA: /ˈsæməjɛd/, /səˈmɔɪ.ɛd/

名詞

Samoyed (plural Samoyeds or Samoyed)

1. (anthropology) A member of the Samoyedic peoples of the Siberian Urals, who speak Samoyedic languages.
   • 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of other Northerne people adioyning to the Tartars.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 363:

     The Samoyeds are Idolaters and Witches, obſeruing diuelliſh ſuperſtitions

2. (zoology) A hardy breed of dog from Siberia.

   Synonyms: Sammie (nickname), Sammy (nickname), Smiley (nickname)

形容詞

Samoyed

1. (anthropology) Of or pertaining to this people.
   • 1984, Gary Jennings, The Journeyer, page 378:

     some Samoyed musicians performed pieces of similar cacophony on an assortment of instruments - hand drums and finger cymbals and pipes resembling our fagotto and dulzaina.

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