cnihtcildとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈknixtˌt͡ʃild/, [ˈkniçtˌt͡ʃiɫd]

名詞

cnihtċild n

1. a boy, male child
   • late 9th century, Old English Martyrology

     On þǣm dæġe Crīst onfeng þā ealdan ymbsnidenysse ond þā ealdan clǣsnunge Iūdea folces, þæt þonne wæs þæt hīe æġhwelċum cnihtċilde ymbsnidon þæt werlīċe līm on þǣm eahteðan dæġe æfter his acennisse, ond sēo clǣsnung him wæs swā hȧliġ swā ūs is fullwiht...

     On that day Christ underwent the traditional circumcision and purification of the Judean folk, which was that manly limb of each of their male children was circumcised on the eighth day after his bird, and the purification was as holy as baptism is for us...

参照

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cniht-cild”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.