Hindとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English hinde, from 古期英語 hindan (“at the rear, from behind”), Proto-Germanic *hinder (“behind, beyond”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱem-ta- (“down, below, with, far, along, against”), from *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”). Cognate with Gothic �������������� (hindana, “from beyond”), Old Norse hindr (“obstacle”), Old Norse handan (“from that side, beyond”), Old High German hintana (“behind”), 古期英語 hinder (“behind, back, in the farthest part, down”), Latin contra (“in return, against”). More at hinder, contrary.

形容詞

hind (comparative hinder, superlative hindmost)

1. Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
   • 1786 July 31, Robert Burns, “On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire: Printed by John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock: James McKie, March 1867, →OCLC, page 184:

     Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!

   • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:

     When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.

2. Backward; to the rear.

派生語

語源 2

From Middle English hind, hinde, hynde, from 古期英語 hind, Proto-West Germanic *hindu, from Proto-Germanic *hindō, *hindiz, from a formation on Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- (“hornless”). Cognate with Dutch hinde, German Hinde, Danish hind.

名詞

hind (複数形 hinds)

1. A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 1, member 3:

     Nature binds all creatures to love their young ones; an hen to preserve her brood will run upon a lion, an hind will fight with a bull, a sow with a bear, a silly sheep with a fox.

2. A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.

同意語

• (female deer): doe

派生語

• hindberry

語源 3

From Middle English hynd, hine, from 古期英語 hī(ġ)na, genitive plural of hīġa (“servant, family member”), in the phrase hīna fæder ‘paterfamilias’. The -d is a later addition (compare sound). Compare Old Frisian hinde (“servant”).

名詞

hind (複数形 hinds)

1. (archaic) A servant, especially an agricultural labourer.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the Parcimony of Our Forefathers”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 167:

     Attilius Regulus […] writ vnto the common-wealth, that a hynde, or plough-boy whom he had left alone to over-ſee and husband his land (which in all was but ſeaven acres of ground) was run away from his charge […].

   • 1792, Robert Bowmaker, “Number LI. Parish of Dunse, (County of Berwick.)”, in John Sinclair, editor, The Statistical Account of Scotland. Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, volume IV, Edinburgh: Printed and sold by William Creech [et al.], →OCLC, page 386:

     The farmers ſervants who have families, and engage by the year, are called hinds, and receive 10 bolls oats, 2 bolls barley, and 1 boll peas, which two laſt articles are called hummel corn, […]

   • 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale, page 41:

     The peaceful tenour of Nina's life was interrupted one morning by the mysterious looks and whisperings of her maids and hinds.

   • 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth:

     that my brother can sit at leisure in a seat and learn something and I must work like a hind, who am your son as well as he!

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hind.

参照

• hind at OneLook Dictionary Search
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “hind”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Dinh

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *hindi, from Proto-Germanic *hindō, *hindiz, whence also Old High German hinta, Old Norse hind.

発音

• IPA^(key): /xind/, [hind]

名詞

hind f

1. hind

語形変化

派生語

• hindċealf

派生した語

• Middle English: hind, hinde, hynde
  • Scots: hynde, hynd, hind
  • English: hind

参照

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “hind”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.