feawとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *fau, in turn from Proto-Germanic *fawaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-.

Cognate with Old Norse fār (Danish få, Swedish få), Old High German fō, fōh; Further cognates via the Proto-Indo-European root include Latin paucus, pauper, puer (“boy”); Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs, “child”).

発音

• IPA: /fæ͜ɑːw/

形容詞

fēaw (superlative fēawost)

1. few

使用する際の注意点

This word was often used in the weak declension, often indeclinably as feāwa, even when the strong declension would be expected (similar to other quantifiers such as āna or mā, the latter of which was never declined). When used undeclined, it typically took the genitive of the thing it was quantifying.

語形変化

派生語

• fēasċeaft

派生した語

• Middle English: fewe, feawe, feu
  • English: few
  • Scots: feu, fyow
  • Yola: vew