elseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, 米国発音) IPA: /ɛls/
• (colloquial) IPA: /ɛlts/
• 韻: -ɛls

形容詞

else (not comparable)

1. (postpositive, used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.

   The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?

   Whatever else she may be, she is not a surgeon.

   When all else fails, read the instructions.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Prospero:
     Thou hast done well, fine Ariel. Follow me;
     Hark what thou else shalt do me.

   • 2013, Keith T. Krawczynski, Daily Life in the Colonial City:

     As with most else in society, early Americans believed that health and healing were in God's hand.

使用する際の注意点

• This adjective usually follows an indefinite or interrogative pronoun, as in the examples above. In other cases, the adjective other is typically used.

派生語

副詞

else (not comparable)

1. (usually follows interrogative adverbs) Otherwise, if not.

   How else (= in what other way) can it be done?

   I'm busy Friday; when else (= what other time) works for you?

   • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:

     The crust of ice on the else rippling brook was so transparent, and so thin in texture, that the lively water might of its own free will have stopped—in Tom’s glad mind it had—to look upon the lovely morning.

使用する際の注意点

• (otherwise): This word frequently follows interrogative adverbs, such as how, why, and when, as well as the derived however, whyever, and whenever.

同意語

• otherwise

派生語

• or else

接続詞

else

1. For otherwise; or else.

   Then the Wronskian of f and g must be nonzero, else they could not be linearly independent.

   • 1903 July, Jack London, “The Law of Club and Fang”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 44:

     He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.

派生語

• if-then-else
• dangling else

参考

• and
• if
• not
• or
• then

アナグラム

• slee, Slee, lese, lees, EELS, Lees, eels, seel, sele, ELEs, l'ees

語源

A metathetic form of Proto-West Germanic *-islī.

発音

• IPA: /el.se/, [eɫ.ze]

接尾辞

-else f

1. (feminine suffix for inanimate objects) suffix creating nouns from verbs

   rǣdelse ― counsel, advice, riddle, enigma

   myrrelse, mierrelse ― an offense, scandal; stumblingblock

語形変化

Weak n-stem:

同意語

• -els

派生語

• Category Old English terms suffixed with -else not found

派生した語

• English: -le