westeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *wōstī (“waste, desolate”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈweːs.te/

形容詞

wēste

1. desolate, waste, barren, deserted; uninhabited, empty
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Onġietan sċeal glēaw hæle · hū gǣstlīċ bið,
     þonne ealle þisse worulde wela · wēste stondeð;

     A wise man must understand how spiritual it is
     when all wealth of this world stands empty;

2. void

語形変化

派生した語

• Middle English: weste, west, wesste (Ormulum)

別の表記

• west
• wesste (Ormulum)

発音

• IPA: /ˈweːst(ə)/, /ˈwɛst(ə)/

形容詞

weste

1. (chiefly Early Middle English) uncultivated, deserted, desolate

関連する語

• westen (“wilderness”)
• westen (“to devastate”)

名詞

weste

1. (Early Middle English, rare) wasteland, wilderness

参照

• “wẹ̄ste, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “wẹ̄ste, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

動詞

weste

1. Alternative form of westen (“to move west”)

語源 3

動詞

weste

1. Alternative form of westen (“to devastate”)