eenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

名詞

een

1. (archaic and Scotland, Northern England) plural of eye
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21:

     And eke with fatnesse swollen were his eyne

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget. John Dodds said they were the een of a deer with the Devil ahint them; and indeed, they would so appal an onlooker that a sudden unreasoning terror came into his heart, while his feet would impel him to flight.

参照

• “een”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “een”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.

語源 2

From a contraction of even.

副詞

een (not comparable)

1. (dialectal, Northern England) even.

語源 3

From even (“evening”).

名詞

een (plural eens)

1. (poetic or dialectal, Scotland) evening.

同意語

• eve, eventide, forenight; see also Thesaurus:evening

アナグラム

• -ene, ENE, Nee, nee, née

接尾辞

-een

1. (Ireland) Used to form the diminutives of nouns in Hiberno-English.

   man + -een → maneen (“little man”)

2. (Ireland) Used to anglicise the Irish -ín suffix when anglicising Irish nouns.

   poitín → poteen

派生語

アナグラム

• -ene, ENE, Nee, nee, née

形容詞

e'en

1. (poetic, archaic) Contraction of even.

動詞

e'en

1. (poetic, archaic) Contraction of even.

副詞

e'en

1. (poetic, archaic) Contraction of even.

使用する際の注意点

• In poetry, used especially for the sake of metre.
• May be used for all senses of even.

派生語

アナグラム

• -ene, ENE, Nee, nee, née