feaxとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *fahs (“hair, mane”). Cognate with Old Frisian fax, Old Saxon fahs, Old High German fahs, Old Norse fax.

発音

• IPA^(key): /fæ͜ɑks/

名詞

feax n

1. hair (on the head)
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     Hē hæfde blæc feax, blācne andwlitan, and medmiċele nose þynne.

     He had black hair, a pale face, and a small, thin nose.

   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr"

     Þā sē enġel ġelǣhte hine be þām feaxe and hine bær tō Babylōne.

     Then the angel grabbed him by the hair and carried him to Babylon.

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