weorcとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werką, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom.

Cognate with Old Frisian werk, Old Saxon werk, Old High German werk, Old Norse verk. Non-Germanic cognates include Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon).

発音

• IPA: /we͜ork/, [we͜orˠk]

名詞

weorc n

1. work, in various senses, including:
   1. labor
      • c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints

        Þā ēode sē prēost eft tō his weorce.

        Then the priest went back to his work.

      • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

        Gyf þonne ǣfre gebyreð þæt þū þē ful hālne and ful trumne ongytst, and hæafst æalle þīne frēond myd þē, ǣġðer ge on mōde ge on līchaman, and on ðām ilcan worce and on ðām ylcan willum ðe ðē best lyst dōn, hweðer þū ðonne wille bēon āwiht blīðe?

        If then it ever happen that thou shalt find thyself full whole and full strong, and hast all thy friends with thee, both in mind and in body, and in that same work and in that same will which pleaseth thee best to do, wilt thou then be happy at all?

   2. a creation, such as a building or a work of art
      • c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham (tr.), Hexameron of St. Basil:

        On ðām forman dæġe ūre drihten ġesċeōp seofonfealde weorc, ðæt wǣron ealle englas, and ðǣs lēohtes anġin, and ðæt antimber ðe hē of ġesċeōp syððan ġesċeafta, ðā upplīċan heofenan and ðā nyðerlīċan eorðan, ealle wætersċypas, and ða widgillan sǣ, and ðæt uppliċe lyft, eall on anū dæġe.

        On the first day our Lord created seven works, which were: all of the angels; the beginning of light; the substance from which he later made all the creatures; the high heavens; the low earth; all the bodies of water; the wide ocean; and the lofty sky, all in a single day.

   3. act, deed

      Weorc sprecaþ swīðor þonne word.

      Actions speak louder than words.

2. pain, travail, grief

使用する際の注意点

• Occasionally appears to carry the sense "pain," but these instances are probably the result of scribal confusion by West Saxons unfamiliar with the Anglian word wærċ.

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生語

関連する語

• handġeweorc
• wyrċan (“to work”)
• wyrhta (“worker”)

派生した語

• Middle English: werk, wirk, work
  • English: work
  • Geordie: wark
  • Scots: wark
  • Yola: woork

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