selfcwalaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

self- +‎ cwalu

発音

• IPA: /ˈself.kwɑ.lɑ/, [ˈseɫf.kwɑ.lɑ]

名詞

selfcwala m

1. someone who commits suicide
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Eight Vices and Twelve Abuses"

     Ēaðe mæġ sē mann findan hū hē hine selfne āmierre, ac wē sċulon witan þæt nān selfcwala, þæt is āgenslaga, ne becymþ tō Godes rīċe.

     Anyone can easily find a way to destroy themselves, but we should know that no suicide, that is [synonym], makes it into the Kingdom of God.

語形変化

Weak:

同意語

• āgenslaga
• selfbana
• selfmyrþere

関連する語

• selfcwalu

派生した語

• Middle English: seolf-cwale, seolf cwale

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “self-cwala”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.