delfとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 delf, delve, dælf (“a quarry, clay pit, hole; an artificial watercourse, a canal, a ditch, a trench; a grave; a pitfall”), from 古期英語 delf, ġedelf (“delving, digging”) and dælf (“that which is dug, delf, ditch”), from Proto-West Germanic *delban (“to dig”), from Proto-Germanic *delbaną (“to dig”). More at delve.

発音

• 韻: -ɛlf

名詞

delf (plural delfs or delves)

1. (archaic, UK, dialectal) A mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch.
2. (heraldry) A charge representing a square sod of turf, traditionally taking the form of a simple square (e.g. in the middle of an escutcheon), although modernly sometimes represented with the grass in profile.

   two delves gules

3. Alternative form of delft (“style of earthenware”)
   • 1723, Jonathan Swift, Stella at Wood Park:

     Five nothings in five plates of delf

   • 1848 April – 1849 October, E[dward] Bulwer-Lytton, chapter IV, in The Caxtons: A Family Picture, volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1849, →OCLC, part I, page 26:

     Suddenly a beautiful delf blue-and-white flower-pot, which had been set on the window-sill of an upper storey, fell to the ground with a crash, and the fragments spluttered up around my father's legs.

   • 1864, Robert Browning, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 832‎, retrieved 2012-01-18:

     That's all—do what we do, but noblier done— / Use plate, whereas we eat our meals off delf, / (To use a figure).

   • 1941, Sarah Atherton, Mark's Own, Bobbs-Merrill:

     Men can't munch from meatless pots and doughless delf.

派生語

• stonedelf

参照

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “delf”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

アナグラム

• FDLE, fled

発音

• IPA: /delf/, [deɫf]

名詞

delf n (nominative plural delf)

1. digging, excavation
2. that which is dug: trench, quarry, canal

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: delf, delfe, delve, dælf
  • English: delf, delve
  • Scots: delf, delph

語源

From 古期英語 delf, from delfan (中期英語 delven).

発音

• IPA: /dɛlf/, /dɛlv/

名詞

delf (plural delves)

1. A quarry (pit for digging stone or clay).
2. A man-made channel or stream; a water-filled ditch.
3. A hole or ditch; a delf.

派生した語

• English: delf, delve
• Scots: delf, delph

参照

• “delf, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.