weltheとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

welthe

1. Obsolete spelling of wealth.
   • 1474, Caxton, Game and Playe of the Chesse‎:

     And an enuyous man hath no vertue in hymself/ for he corrumpeth hymself for as moche as he hateth allway the welthe and vertues of other/ and thus ought they to kepe them that they take none euyll suspec[=o]n For a man naturally whan his affection hath suspecion in ony man that he weneth that he doth/ hit semeth to hym verily that it is doon.

   • c. 1500, anonymous author, A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483‎:

     Whan Charyte ys chosen with stats to stonde, Stedfast and styll, with oute distaunce, Then wreth may be exilid out of thys londe, And God oure gide to have governaunce; Wysdom and welthe with all plesaunce, May ryghtfulle reigne, and prosperite, For love hath underleyde wrethfull vengeaunce; Reioyse Enlond the lords acordid bee.

   • 1874, Alexander Barclay, The Ship of Fools, Volume 1‎:

     He wrote and ordeyned lawes moste egal and iust He edityed vnto the Grekes a comon welthe stable, quyet and commendable.

語源 1

Either inherited from 古期英語 *welþ, *welþu (from Proto-West Germanic *waliþu) or formed anew from wele (“wealth”) +‎ -the (abstract nominal suffix) on the model of helthe.