stonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

発音

• IPA: /stɔ̝ːn/
  • 韻: -ɔːn
• IPA: /stɑːn/ (Early Middle English)
• IPA: /staːn/ (Northern)

名詞

ston (plural stones or ston or (early, rare) stonen)

1. A stone, boulder, or pebble:
   • c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 15-16; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:

     Iudaſ go þou on þe roc heie upon the ſton / lei þin heued i my barm, ſlep þou þe anon

     "Judas, get up on the rock, high on the stone, / rest your head on my lap and fall asleep right away!"

   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 6:16, folio 119, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     .· ⁊ þei ſeien to hillis and to ſtoonys falle ȝe on us ⁊ hide ȝe vs fro þe face of hi[m] þat ſittiþ on the troone.· ⁊ fro þe wraþþe of þe lomb ·

     And they said to hills and rocks: "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb […] "

   1. A millstone or whetstone.
   2. A pebble used in a slingshot.
2. A solid mass resembling a stone, particularly:
   1. A piece of hail, a hailstone.
   2. A kidney stone or gallstone.
   3. A pit; the hard seed of a fruit.
   4. A jewel; a gemstone.
   5. (colloquial) A testicle.
3. Stone as a material (especially in construction)
4. A stone structure or monument, especially a tomb or tombstone.
5. A stone (unit of mass)

関連する語

派生した語

• English: stone (see there for further descendants)
• English: (West Yorkshire) stoan
• English: (Ottawa-Valley) staun
• Geordie: styen
• Scots: stane
• Yola: sthoan
• → Anglo-Norman: ston

参照

• “stōn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 April 2018.