Knyghtとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 古期英語 cniht, from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

発音

• IPA: /knixt/, /kniːxt/
• (dialectal or late) IPA: /kniːt/
• 韻: -ixt

名詞

knyght (plural knyghtes or knyghten)

1. A knight (armoured noble soldier)
   • c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 34-35; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:

     [Þ]au pilatuſ him come wid ten hu[n]dꝛed cniſteſ. / yet ic wolde louerd foꝛ þi loue fiſte.

     "If Pilate himself came with ten hundred knights, / Lord, I would still fight for your sake."

2. (by extension) A noble; a potentate.
3. (figuratively) A warrior; a fighter.
   • c. 1390, “Edward þe þridde”, in Sowlehele (Vernon Lyrics, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1)‎, Worcestershire, folio 411, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2019 January 10:

     ¶ Þe Roþ᷑. was nouþer. Ok. ne Elm⹎ / Hit was Edward þe þridde. þe noble kniht.

     The rudder was neither oak or elm: / It was Edward the Third, the noble warrior!

4. (chiefly Early Middle English) A servant or attendant.
5. (Early Middle English) A boy or youth.
6. (chess) A knight (chess piece)

語形変化

関連する語

• knyghten
• knyghtly

派生した語

• English: knight
• Scots: knicht
• Yola: nickht

参照

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