Twelfとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• twælf — late Kentish
• tuœlf — Northumbrian
• tuelf

語源

From Proto-Germanic *twalif, a compound of *twa- (compare two) and *-lif.

発音

• IPA: /twelf/, [tweɫf]

数詞

twelf

1. twelve
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     [Wiht] is þrittiġes mīla lang ēast ⁊ west, ⁊ twelf mīla brād sūð ⁊ norð.

     [Wight] is thirty miles long east-to-west and twelve miles wide north-to-south.

   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Beforan Moyse and hys folce, hē ðone Rēadan sǣ on twelf wegas ādrīġde; þæt hī, drīġan fōtan, þæne sǣ oferfērdon.

     Before Moses and His people, He dried up twelve paths in the Red Sea, so that they could cross the sea with dry feet.

使用する際の注意点

• This numeral was sometimes inflected for case, but could also be indeclinable.

語形変化

派生語

• twelffeald
• twelfhynde

派生した語

• Middle English: twelf, tuelf, twelfe, twælf (Early Middle English), twellf (Ormulum)
  • English: twelve
  • Middle Scots: twelf, tuelf, twalf
    • Scots: twal, twel, twol

別の表記

• tuelf, twelfe
• twælf (Early Middle English); twellf (Ormulum)

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 twelf, from Proto-West Germanic *twalif, in turn from Proto-Germanic *twalif.

発音

• IPA: /twɛlf/

数詞

twelf (postpositive twelve)

1. twelve

関連する語

• twelfte

派生した語

• English: twelve
• Middle Scots: twelf, tuelf, twalf
  • Scots: twal, twel, twol

参照

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