weeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: wē, IPA: /wiː/
• 韻: -iː
• 異形同音異義語: oui, we, Wii; whee (wine–whine merger)

語源 1

From 中期英語 wey, weygh, wegh, weȝe, wæȝe (“little bit”), from 古期英語 wǣġ, wǣġe (“weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales, weight”) and *wēgǭ (“weight”), related to 中期英語 weġan (“to move, weigh”) (15c).

形容詞

wee (comparative weer, superlative weest)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand, Ottawa Valley, Mid-Ulster) Small, little.

   You looked a little cold, so I lit a wee fire.

   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 275:

     The beat of its wee heart held against her own, sent her intense maternity surging like the spring sap in a young tree.

   • 1915, Charles L Graves, Humours of Irish life, pages 241-242:

     Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed.

   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 73:

     I had not seen a wee boy do it like that before. He was weer than me and his swimming was just like splashing about.

派生語

名詞

wee

1. A short time or short distance.

参照

• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

語源 2

Onomatopoeic for the sound of urination. The noun derives from the verb.

名詞

wee (countable and uncountable, plural wees)

1. (colloquial, uncountable) Urine.
2. (colloquial, countable) An act of urination.

   I need to have a wee.

同意語

• (all senses): wee-wee
• (urine): See Thesaurus:urine
• (urination): See Thesaurus:urination

動詞

wee (third-person singular simple present wees, present participle weeing, simple past and past participle weed)

1. (UK, colloquial) To urinate.

   I need to wee! I can't hold it any longer!

   • 2011 March 15, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):

     When I was young, I was up every night until the wee hours. Now I'm up every hour at night to wee.

同意語

• wee-wee, see also Thesaurus:urinate

派生語

語源 3

• see we

代名詞

wee (personal pronoun)

1. obsolete emphatic of we
   • 1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon:

     Yet lest wee should be Capernaitans, as wee are told there that the flesh profiteth nothing, so wee are told heer, if we be not as deaf as adders, that this union of the flesh proceeds from the union of a fit help and solace.

参考

アナグラム

• EWE, eew, Ewe, ewe

名詞

wee

1. alternative form of we (“woe”)

語源 2

名詞

wee

1. alternative form of wye (“man, warrior”)