sikeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /saɪk/
• 韻: -aɪk
• 異形同音異義語: psych, cyc

語源 1

From Northern 中期英語 sike, from 古期英語 sīċ (see sitch), possibly also from or related to Old Norse sík; both from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; trickle”). Cognate with Norwegian sik. Compare Scots sheuch.

名詞

sike (plural sikes)

1. (Scotland, Northumbria) A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer; the marshy ground or ditch through which such a stream flows.
   • 1809, John Skinner, Amusements of Leisure Hours, or Poetical Pieces, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, page 41:

     The swankies lap thro' mire and syke, Wow as their heads did birr!

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Tales of My Landlord: 2nd Series, Collectd and Arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseud.], page 6:

     [...] a great gathering o' their folk at the Miry-sikes,  […]

   • 1859, William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison, The London Quarterly Review, page 278:

     It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; […]

   • 1876, Rosaline Orme Masson, Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from Chaucer to Herrick, A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512, page 160:

     The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dankès deep was every sike; […]

   • 1937, Scottish History Society, Publications of the Scottish History Society:

     […] hills and mountains, moss or mure, bank or syke, sea or shore, […]

   • 1952 [1776], Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Transactions and Journal of Proceedings:

     The march of that herding is to come from the Rispie syke to the point at Blood syke Bottom to the stone syke-head.

別の表記

• syke

語源 2

From 中期英語 siken, from 古期英語 sīcan (“to sigh”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīkan (“to sigh”). Doublet of sigh.

動詞

sike (third-person singular simple present sikes, present participle siking, simple past and past participle siked)

1. (archaic or Northern England) To sigh or sob.

名詞

sike (plural sikes)

1. (archaic or Northern England) A sigh.

語源 3

限定詞

sike

1. (Yorkshire) Such.
   • (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     She macks sike warke.

参照

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語源 4

Pronunciation respelling of psych.

間投詞

sike

1. (slang) Alternative form of psych.

アナグラム

• EIKs, Kise, seki, skie