angelcynnとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Angel- +‎ cynn

発音

• IPA: /ˈɑn.ɡelˌkynn/, [ˈɑŋ.ɡelˌkyn]

固有名詞

Angelcynn n

1. the Anglo-Saxon people; the English race
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     Þonne is on ēasteweardre Cent myċel ēaland Tenet, þæt is syx hund hīda miċel æfter Angelcynnes ǣhte. Þæt ēalond tōsċēadeð Wantsumo strēam frām þām tōġeþēoddan lande. Sē is þrēora furlunga brād: ⁊ on twām stōwum is oferfernes, ⁊ ǣġhwæþer ende līð on sǣ.

     Now to the east of Cent there is the great island of Thanet, which contains six hundreds hides by the English manner of reckoning. The island separates the Wantsum Channel from the adjacent land. It is three furlongs wide; and it can be crossed in two places, and at each end flows into the sea.

   Synonym: Engle

2. England (a medieval kingdom in Northern Europe)

   Synonym: Engla land

   • p. 1154, “AD 1008”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636), Peterborough, folio 43, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:

     Her bebead ſe cyng þet man ſceolde ofer eall angel cynn ſcipu feaſtlice ƿircean.

     That year, the king ordered that ships should be built unremittingly all over England.

語形変化

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