kneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from Anglian 古期英語 cnēo (West Saxon 古期英語 cnēow is continued in knew), from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”).

発音

• IPA: /kneː/, /kniu̯/
  • 韻: -eː
• IPA: /knøː/, /knyu̯/ (West Midland)

名詞

kne (plural knes or knen)

1. The knee (or a similar joint in other animals)
   • a. 1333, “Poem 15: Eterne rex altissime; Fol. 209v-210r”, in William Herebert, transl., Opera (British Library MS. Add. 46919)‎, Hereford; republished as The Works of William Herebert, OFM (Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse), [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan, a. 2018:

     Vor hœ́uene and œ́rþe and helle, and al þat þrinne bœ́n, / To þé shullen bouwen hœm and bénden hœre knœ́n.

     Since heaven, earth, and hell, and everything that's in them, / shall bow before You and bend their knees.

2. A knee (bent timber for shipbuilding)
3. (figurative) A generation; a degree of descent.

派生した語

• English: knee
• Middle Scots: kne, kney, knie
  • Scots: knee
• Yola: konnee

参照

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