Cairnとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Scots cairn, from Scottish Gaelic càrn, from Old Irish carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).

Compare Welsh carn, Cornish carn. Doublet of carn and horn.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɛən/
• (General American) IPA: /kɛ(ə)ɹn/
• (General Australian) IPA: /keːn/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /keən/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /kiən/
• (Scotland) IPA: /keɹn/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /kɜː(ɹ)n/
• 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)n

名詞

cairn (plural cairns)

1. A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.

   Synonym: See burial mound § Synonyms

   • 1826, Thomas Campbell, “Glenara”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, page 105:

     "Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn: / Why speak ye no word!"—said Glenara the stern.

2. A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.

   Hypernym: marker

   • 1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 180:

     After fifteen minutes of this we were glad to reach a high saddle on which former travellers had piled little cairns of commemoration and thankfulness.

3. A cairn terrier.

派生語

Further reading

• “cairn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “cairn”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• Nicar., naric, NICRA, racin', Crain, Rican, CARIN, incar