en-...-enとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɛnˈ- -ən/

接周辞

en- -en

1. Forms transitive verbs denoting an increase in, or intensification of, the quality denoted by the enclosed word.

関連する語

Note: Not all of these words listed were etymologically constructed with the en- -en circumfix. Those confirmed to have been so constructed are marked with obeli (s); those confirmed to have been formed otherwise are marked with asterisks (*s); and those whose origins are uncertain are unmarked.

参考

• a- -ing

参照

• Most dictionaries do not consider the concept of a circumfix to be valid for production rules in current English, and since en- -en can be analyzed as a redundant combination of the prefix en- and the suffix -en, most dictionaries do not have a separate entry for it.

アナグラム

• Nene, neen, nene, nēnē

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 ēanian, from Proto-West Germanic *aunōn, from Proto-Germanic *aunōną, from *aunaz (“lamb”).

Variants with /d/ are from reinterpretation of the past-tense suffix as part of the verbal stem (compare modern English lend, sound).

発音

• IPA: /ˈɛːnən/

動詞

enen (third-person singular simple present eneth, present participle enende, enynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle ened)

1. (rare, of livestock) To give birth; to yean.

Conjugation

関連する語

• yenen

派生した語

• English: ean
• Scots: eenie

参照

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