stairとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 steire, staire, stayre, stayer, steir, steyre, steyer, from 古期英語 stǣġer (“stair, staircase”), from Proto-West Germanic *staigri, from Proto-Germanic *staigriz (“stairs, scaffolding”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk, proceed, march, climb”).

Cognate with Dutch steiger (“a stair, step, wharf, pier, scaffolding”), Middle Low German steiger, steir (“scaffolding”), German Low German Steiger (“a scaffold; trestle”). Related to 古期英語 āstǣġan (“to ascend, go up, embark”), 古期英語 stīġan (“to go, move, reach; ascend, mount, go up, spring up, rise; scale”), German Stiege (“a flight of stairs”). More at sty.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /stɛɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /stɛə/
• (General Australian) IPA: /steː/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /stiə/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /steə/
• (Scotland) IPA: /steɹ/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /stɜː(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: stare; steer (cheer–chair merger); stir (fair–fur merger)

名詞

stair (plural stairs)

1. A single step in a staircase.

   Synonym: step

2. A series of steps; a staircase.
   • 1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:

     Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …

使用する際の注意点

• Stairs and stair are used to refer to a single staircase, mostly interchangeably in the UK.

同意語

• (Cockney rhyming slang) apples and pears

派生語

参考

• ladder
• landing
• scaffold

アナグラム

• ISTAR, Ritsa, Sarti, Sitar, Trias, airts, arist, astir, sitar, stria, tarsi, tiars, tisar