swynとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

swȳn n

1. alternative form of swīn

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn, from Proto-Germanic *swīną.

発音

• IPA: /swiːn/
• 韻: -iːn

名詞

swyn (plural swyn or (rare) swynes)

1. A pig, hog or swine.

   Synonyms: hog, pigge

   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 9, verso, lines 597-599:

     Hıs loꝛdes sheep[e] / hıs neet / hıs daẏerẏe / Hıs swẏn / hıs hoꝛs / hıs stooꝛ / and hıs pultrẏe / Was hoollẏ / ın thıs Reues gou[er]nẏnge […]

     His lord's sheep, beef herd, dairy herd, / swine, horses, livestock, and poultry, / were entirely under this reeve's control […]

   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Matheu 7:6, folio 2, recto, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     Nile ȝe ȝyue hooli þing to houndis · neþer caſte ȝe ȝoure margaritis bifoꝛe ſwyn / leſt parauenture þei defoulen hem wiþ her feet / ⁊ and þe houndes be turned and ⁊ to tere ȝou

     You shouldn't give holy things to dogs or throw your pearls at pigs, in case they trample them with their feet while the dogs are turned and rip at you.

2. The meat of swine or pigs; pork.

   Synonyms: hog, pigge

3. (colloquial) A disgraceful individual.

関連する語

• brunswyn
• mereswyn
• swynherde

派生した語

• English: swine
• Scots: swine

参照

• “swīn(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.