cheseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• cheese, chesse, cheys, chiese, chise
• cæse, ceose, cuse, cyse (Early Middle English)

発音

• IPA: /ˈt͡ʃeːz(ə)/

名詞

chese (plural cheses)

1. cheese (dairy product)
   • p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 8 February 2018:

     þa ƿaſ coꝛn dære: ⁊ flec ⁊ cæſe ⁊ butere. foꝛ nan ƿæſ o þe land. Ƿreccemen ſturuen of hungær.

     Grain was precious then, and meat, cheese, and butter, because there wasn't any in the country. Wretched men died from hunger.

   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Somnours Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 80, recto:

     Ẏıf vs a buſſhel whete / Malt oꝛ Reẏe / A goddes kechẏl / oꝛ a trẏp[e] of cheeſe / Oꝛ ellıs what ẏow lẏſt / we maẏ nat cheſe […]

     "Give us a bushel of wheat, malt, or rye, a God's cake, a bit of cheese / or anything that you want; we don't need to choose […]

2. curds (coagulated milk)
3. A piece of cheese; a curd.

派生した語

• English: cheese (see there for further descendants)
• Middle Scots: cheis, cheys, scheis, sches, schis
  • Scots: cheese

参照

• “chẹ̄se, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

動詞

chese

1. alternative form of chesen (“to choose”)