Anglosaxonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Anglosaxon (rare)
• AS (initialism)

語源

From Anglo- +‎ Saxon, from Latin Anglosaxones (Anglo-Saxones), Latin Angli Saxones (literally “the English Saxons”), as distinguished from the Continental Saxons. Compare 古期英語 Angelseaxan.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌæŋ.ɡləʊˈsæk.sən/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌæŋ.ɡloʊˈsæk.sən/
• 韻: -æksən
• ハイフネーション: An‧glo‧Sax‧on

固有名詞

Anglo-Saxon

1. (now rare) Synonym of Old English (language).

   Meronyms: Anglian, Kentish, Mercian, Northumbrian, West Saxon

2. (informal) Profanity, especially words derived from Old English.
   • 1954, American Association of University Professors, Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors:

     Sometimes these chairmen are authoritarians, who wield the budget-book as a weapon - the junior staff members have some Anglo-Saxon words for them

   • 1995, Margaret Edson, Wit:

     I haven't eaten in two days. What's left to puke? You may remark that my vocabulary has taken a turn for the Anglo-Saxon.

   • 2008, Zagreus Mike Luoma, Neo-gnosis, →ISBN:

     How fucked up is that? (Pardon my Anglo-Saxon)

参考

名詞

Anglo-Saxon (plural Anglo-Saxons)

1. A member of the Germanic peoples who settled in England during the early fifth century.
2. (US) A person of English ethnic descent.
3. (US, Mexican-American) A lightskinned or blond-haired person presumably of North European descent like British.

派生語

形容詞

Anglo-Saxon (comparative more Anglo-Saxon, superlative most Anglo-Saxon)

1. Related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language.
2. Related to nations which speak primarily English and are influenced by English culture and customs, especially Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.
   • 1963, Claude Lévy-Strauss, translated by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Schoepf, Structural Anthropology, New York: Basic Books, page 2:

     [...] Ethnography thus aims at record-
     ing as accurately as possible the respective modes of life of various
     groups. Ethnology, on the other hand, utilizes for comparative
     purposes (the nature of which will be explained below) the data
     provided by the ethnographer. Thus, ethnography has the same
     meaning in all countries, and ethnology corresponds approximately
     to what is known in Anglo-Saxon countries—where the term eth-
     nology has become obsolete—as social or cultural anthropology.

3. (politics) Favouring a liberal free-market economy.
4. (US) Descended from some other North European settlers like the British (English).

使用する際の注意点

The term Anglo-Saxon is increasingly avoided especially in American historiography, with opponents of the term claiming that the term was not used by English peoples at the time, or that it represents an attempt to create a historical basis for racism and white supremacy (see for example the development of the term White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP)). The term is less controversial in British historiography, where it is more likely to be considered a neutral term for the Angles and Saxons collectively.

参考

• Germanic
• Indo-Germanic

参照

Further reading

SIL entry for Anglo-Saxon, ISO 639-3 code ang

• “Anglo-Saxon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Anglophone countries, Anglo-Saxon countries, English-speaking countries, Anglosphere”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.