Weelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 wele, wyle, welle, likely a fusion of Old Norse vél ("device"; compare Icelandic vél (“a contrivance to catch fish”)) and 中期英語 welwe, wilwe (“a weir, trap, or other device made of willow branches”), from 古期英語 wilige, wylige (“basket”), related to 古期英語 welig (“willow”).

別の表記

• weal (dialectal)

名詞

weel (plural weels)

1. A trap for catching fish; a weely.
2. (botany) An arrangement of hairs that keeps insects out of flowers.

派生語

• weely

参照

• 1900, Benjamin Daydon Jackson, A Glossary of Botanic Terms
• 1900, James Richard Ainsworth Davis, The Flowering Plant (page 112)

語源 2

From 中期英語 wel, weel, wele, wæl, from 古期英語 wǣl (“weel, a deep pool, gulf, deep water of a stream or of the sea”). Cognate with Scots weil, weel (“pool, eddy, whirlpool”), Middle Low German wêl (“a pool”), Middle Low German wêlen (“to swirl, whirl”).

別の表記

• weil, wiel, wale (dialectal)
• wheel (Lancashire)

名詞

weel (plural weels)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A whirlpool.

語源 3

動詞

weel

1. Pronunciation spelling of will, representing Latino-accented English.

参照

• “weel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

形容詞

weel

1. Alternative form of wel