pundとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /pund/
• 韻: -und

名詞

pund n

1. pound (weight or currency)
   • c. 994, Ælfric, On the Year

     Ǣlċe mōnað hēo yrnð under ān þǣra tacna. Ān þǣra tacna ys ġehāten aries, þæt is ramm; oðer taurus, þæt is fearr; ðridda gemini, þæt synd ġetwisan; fēorða cancer, þæt is crabba; fīfta leo; syxta virgo, þæt is mǣden; seofoða libra, þæt is pund orde wǣġe; eahtoðe scorpius, þæt is þrōwend; nigoða is sagittarius, þæt is sċytta; teoða ys capricornus, þæt is buccan horn, oððe bucca; endlyfta is aquarius, þæt is wæter-ġyte, oððe þe þe wæter ġyt; twelfte is pisces, þæt synd fixas.

     Each month runs under one of the signs [of the Zodiac]. The first of the signs is called aries, that is "ram"; the second is taurus, that is "bull"; the third is gemini, that is "twins"; the fourth is cancer, that is "crab"; the fifth is lion; the sixth is virgo, that is "virgin"; the seventh is libra, that is "pound" or "scales"; eighth is scorpious, that is "scorpion"; ninth is sagittarius, that is "shooter"; tenth is capricornus, that is "he-goat's horn" or "he-goat"; eleventh is aquarius, that is "pouring water" or "one that pours water"; twelfth is pisces, that is "fishes."

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: pund, punde, pounde, pound
  • English: pound
  • Geordie: pund
  • → Middle Irish: punt
    • Irish: punt
    • Manx: punt
  • Scots: pund, poond
• → Middle Cornish: puns
  • Cornish: peuns
• → Middle Welsh: punt
  • Welsh: punt

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “pund, es; n.”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 779.