beagとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

beag (plural beags)

1. (historical) A ring.
   • 1878, The Numismatic chronicle and journal of the Numismatic Society, Great Britain: Royal Numismatic Society:

     It was a mark of nobility among the German races — by some considered the origin of our coronets — and had even about it a quasi-religious character in memory of the "holy beag" (holy ring), the oath upon which was tantamount to the oath upon Thorr's hammer.

   • 1970, William A. Chaney, The cult of kingship in Anglo-Saxon England:

     [...] and the description of that monarch in his anonymous Vita as coronatus lauro probably indicates a beag which was lighter than the formal diadema.

アナグラム

• Bega, EGBA, Egba, Gabe, bega

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz, derived from *beuganą (“to bend”). Cognate with Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Old High German boug, and Old Norse baugr.

発音

• IPA: /bæ͜ɑːɡ/, [bæ͜ɑːɣ]

名詞

bēag m

1. circular object worn on the body, especially one made of gold or silver: ring, armlet, crown, collar, torque
   • c. 897, King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care

     Sē þe ūs ġehǣlþ fram þām stiċe ūrra synna, hē ġeþafode þæt him man sette þyrnenne bēag on þæt hēafod.

     The person who heals us from the stabs of our sins allowed a crown of thorns to be placed on his head.

   • Late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 38:18

     Þā cwæþ Iūdas, "Hwæt wilt þū tō underwedde niman?" Þā cwæþ hēo, "Þīnne hring and þīnne bēag and þīnne stæf þe þū on handa hæfst."

     Judah asked, "What do you want to take as a pledge?" She said, "Your ring and your armlet and your staff that you have in your hand."

使用する際の注意点

• Since Proto-Germanic times, different kinds of bēag were often disambiguated with compounds: earmbēag (“armlet”), hēafodbēag (“crown”), swēorbēag (“collar”). *Fingerbēag is not attested and may not have existed, perhaps because hring was already a specific word for "ring."

• During the 10th century, cynehelm begins to become the normal word for "crown."

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• Middle English: beigh, beiȝ, bē, biȝ, by
  • English: bee
• → English: beag (learned)