y'areとは 意味・読み方・使い方

短縮形

y'are

1. (obsolete) Contraction of ye are.
   • 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 122:

     Of if ye ſhould, y’are never the nearer : For I’ll not own it to ye.

2. (rare, dialectal, colloquial) Contraction of you are.
   • 2005 03, Ronan Scanlan, The Mayor of Castlebridge: An Irish Adaptation of a Thomas Hardy Classic, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 123:

     "Well I don't know what y'are bein' so gloomy about Jacob [for]," insisted Hendrick. "Neither of us had the means o' keepin' body and soul together for very long. Now there'll be an income at the cottage as will keep us both."

   • 2024 June 4, Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 272:

     "Y'are a right chance taker today, eh? I've a mind to clean the washhouse, but I'm thinkin' I'd not like the filth in there, are ya hearin' me now, gal?"

   • 2025 July 23, David M. Willis, “Take stock”, in Dumbing of Age:

     [Dorothy:] I'm a little insulted we didn't get any sort of reaction from her. [Sal:] Y'are bein' a little less gay than usual.

アナグラム

• aery, Ayre, ayre, Reay, Eary, year, Raye, Ayer, Arey, eyra

別の表記

• yar (for the nautical sense)

発音

• IPA: /jɛə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)

形容詞

yare (comparative yarer, superlative yarest)

1. (archaic) Ready; prepared.
2. (UK dialectal) Ready, alert, prepared, prompt.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     […] Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skillful and deadly.

3. Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
4. (nautical, of a ship) Easily manageable and responsive to the helm; yar.
   • c. 1587-1612 (undated), Sir Walter Raleigh, letter to Prince Henry

     The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare; whereas the greater is slow.

派生語

• yarely

副詞

yare (comparative more yare, superlative most yare)

1. (archaic) Yarely.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Hey, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to th'Master's whistle. […]

語源 2

名詞

yare

1. Alternative form of yair

アナグラム

• aery, Ayre, ayre, Reay, Eary, year, Raye, Ayer, Arey, eyra