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語源 1

From 中期英語 aught, ought, from 古期英語 āht, āwiht, from ā (“always", "ever”) + wiht (“thing", "creature”). More at wight.

別の表記

• owt

代名詞

aught

1. (archaic or dialectal) Anything whatsoever, any part.

   for aught I know/care

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     […] wouldst thou aught with me?

   • 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene v, page 2:

     But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting.

   • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 129:

     Then Proclamation was made, that they that had ought to ſay for their Lord the King againſt the Priſoner at the Bar, ſhould forthwith appear and give in their evidence.

   • 1748, [David Hume], “chapter 29”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     […] to other objects, which for aught we know, may be only in appearance similar.

   • 1881, E[liza] Lynn Linton, “In the Morning”, in “My Love!” […], volume I, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 1:

     It was a foolish thing to do; but when was happy youth aught but foolish?

   • 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

     But as soon as her son espied her, bowl in hand, he thought that haply something untoward had befallen her, but he would not ask of aught until such time as she had set down the bowl, when she acquainted him with that which had occurred […]

   • 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:

     His life among these fierce apes had been happy; for his recollection held no other life, nor did he know that there existed within the universe aught else than his little forest and the wild jungle animals with which he was familiar.

   • 1977, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Ainulindalë”, in Silmarillion:

     There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.

副詞

aught (not comparable)

1. (archaic) At all, in any degree, in any respect.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     […] and if your love
     Can labour aught in sad invention,
     Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb,
     And sing it to her bones [...]

名詞

aught (plural aughts)

1. (archaic) Whit, the smallest part, iota.

   Synonyms: bit, jot; see also Thesaurus:modicum

参照

• “aught”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

語源 2

Rebracketing of a naught.

名詞

aught (plural aughts)

1. (sometimes proscribed) Zero.
2. The digit zero.

参考

• naught
• owt

語源 3

From 中期英語 aught (“estimation, regard, reputation”), from 古期英語 æht (“estimation, consideration”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahtu. Cognate with Dutch acht (“attention, regard, heed”), German Acht (“attention, regard”). Also see ettle.

名詞

aught (uncountable)

1. (regional) Estimation.

   in my aught

2. (regional) Of importance or consequence (in the phrase "of aught").

   an event of aught

3. (regional, rare, obsolete) Esteem, respect.

   a man of aught ― a man of high esteem, an important or well-respected man

   Show some aught to your elders, boy.

使用する際の注意点

In the first sense, generally found in the phrase "in one's aught" as inː "In my aught, this play ain't worth the candle". In the second sense, generally found in the phrase "of aught" as inː "nothing of aught has happened since you've been away, Sir". In the third sense, generally found in the phrase "a man of aught", or rarely in the more archaic phrase "to show somebody or something (some) aught" as inː "show your mother some aught, son".

参照

• www.duden.de - Acht
• The Middle English Dictionary
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

語源 4

Originally the past tense of owe.

動詞

aught (third-person singular simple present aughts, present participle aughting, simple past and past participle aughted)

1. Obsolete or dialectal form of ought

語源 5

From 中期英語 ahte, from 古期英語 eahta (“eight”). More at eight.

数詞

aught

1. Obsolete or dialectal form of eight.
   • 1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

     Seven — aught — aught tines on the antlers. By G—d, a hart of aught tines, and the first of the season!

アナグラム

• ghaut