False Friendとは意味・読み方・使い方

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WOTD – 4 May 2007

語源

Calque of French faux-ami, from the longer phrase faux amis du traducteur (“false friends of a translator”), first used by Maxime Kœssler and Jules Derocquigny in 1928 in their book Les Faux Amis ou les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais (False Friends, or the Pitfalls of the English Vocabulary).

発音

(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌfɒls ˈfɹɛnd/, /ˌfɔːls ˈfɹɛnd/
(General American) IPA: /ˌfɔls ˈfɹɛnd/, /ˌfɑls ˈfɹɛnd/

名詞

Examples

The Spanish embarazado (“pregnant”) and English embarrassed.
The Portuguese parentes (“relatives”) and English parents.
The Chinese 手紙／手纸 (shǒuzhǐ, “toilet paper”) and Japanese 手紙 (tegami, “letter”), both of which are composed of the same characters.
The Italian triviale (“vulgar”) and English trivial. The two words are cognate through the Latin root trivium (“crossroads”).

false friend (plural false friends)

(linguistics, translation studies, lexicography) A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.

Synonyms: faux ami; false cousin (uncommon)

Coordinate term: true friend

A word and its false friend may well be etymologically related: in such cases semantic shifts have made them drift apart.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see false,‎ friend.

下位語

partial false friend

派生した語

→ Chinese: 假朋友 (jiǎpéngyou), 假友 (jiǎyǒu), 偽友／伪友 (wěiyǒu) (calque)

参考

Category:False cognates and false friends, lists of false friends in various languages
cognate
false cognate (not to be confused)
misnomer and phantonym (both with intralanguage relevance)

参照

^ Christoph Gutknecht (2001) “Translation”, in Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller, editors, The Handbook of Linguistics, Blackwell Publishers, page 698

[1] Christoph Gutknecht (2001) “Translation”, in Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller, editors, The Handbook of Linguistics, Blackwell Publishers, page 698


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False Friendとは意味・読み方・使い方

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Weblio英和対訳辞書での「False Friend」の意味

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「False Friend」の部分一致の例文検索結果

Wiktionary英語版での「False Friend」の意味

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語源

発音

名詞

下位語

派生した語

参考

参照

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形容詞

「False Friend」の部分一致の例文検索結果

「False Friend」のお隣キーワード

False Friendとは意味・読み方・使い方